Abstract

This contribution bears witness to a path of semiotic-hermeneutic research aimed at addressing the notion of Event as firstness, in Peirce’s sense, and as retraction, in Heidegger’s sense. The ‘difference’ proper to the event is thought of starting from the concepts of ‘detachment’ and ‘rebound’ that allow us to think of its retroflexion and novelty, sameness and diversity at the same time, according to the ever-repeating figures of the Ancestor and the Infant. Truth itself must be thought of in this radical ambiguity, which nonetheless constitutes its irreducible life.