the infinity of the thinkable

… only the existence of an infinite ordinal permits us to define the finite. Modern thought says that the first, and banal, situation is the infinite. The finite is a secondary situation, very special, very singular, extremely rare. The obsession with “finitude” is a remnant of the tyranny of the sacred. The “death of God” does not deliver us to finitude, but to the omnipresent infinity of situations, and correlatively, to the infinity of the thinkable.