The ontological basis of the phenomenon of transgression

The article provides an analysis of the ontological dimension of the concept of transgression, describing the event of the transition of an entity from one qualitative state to another. The relevance of the research is related to the lack of clarity of the concept of transgression in philosophy . The research clarifies the relationship between being and entity, and between being and nothingness, in the process of transgression. The study aims to define the ontological basis of the phenomenon of transgression as the transition of an entity from one state of being to a fundamentally different one by overcoming its own limits. The study is theoretically founded on Hegel-Kojeve’s philosophy of negativity, J. Bataille and M. Foucault’s philosophy of transgression, J. Derrida’s philosophy of deconstruction, and J. Libertson’s study of transgression as glissement. The author suggests that transgression is carried out through Nothingness existing in a special modality not given to the subject. According to the author, nothingness that determines the possibility of transgression transforms the being of the entity. The author defines the ontological dimension of transgression as a state of being between the moments ‘already not’ (one) and ‘not yet’ (the other). The author also describes transgression as expansion of the zone of the possible, ensuring the process of development of the subject. The author presents the moment of transgression as a ‘point of discontinuity’ in the interval between the states of being ‘A’ and ‘B’. The article argues that, at the micro level, transgression cannot be considered a linear transition; therefore, the metaphor of a ‘wormhole’ is used to illustrate this type of transition. Conversely, at the macro level, transgression can be represented as glissement of the current moment of being along a Mobius strip, symbolising the transformation from one state to another, as well as the connection between the past, present and future. The author concludes that from an ontological point of view transgression represents a dialectical unity of the gap generated by Nothingness and the continuity preserved in being. The theoretical significance of the research lies in the author’s original explanation of the ontological basis of transgression; the practical significance may lie in developing new ontological models of transformations of being. The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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