Essere qualunque (Nancy e Joyce)

In Nancy’s philosophy there is place not only for singularities but also for the ‘whatever being’, what James Joyce calls ‘Anyone’ or ‘Noman’. What actually is the place of such whatever being in our experience? Where is it, what does it do? Two main examples of such ambiguous being are the literary process of the list and, what regards the perceptive experience, the flat vision. The list is a common expressive tool of Nancy, which origins in Homeric literature and comes back in Joyce’s Ulysses, where is associated to the experience of flat vision. Both, list and flat vision, display a world of whateverness in which everything is put into relation with everything but in itself is a solitary world and with no relation to anything.