It demands heart, brain, soul, body, the
entireness of its votary." A native of Bordeaux, France, Bonheur was betrothed to art early in life, born into a family of artists.
Only the intelligence, which deals with inert things, can therefore understand it." (19) But philosophy is not a dialogic discourse around separated and inert 'things' that have to be ordered in a system of rational connections; rather, it is a monologic form of expression and being, although traversing the world's heteronomy of facts, does not allow for any subjective consciousness to legitimate the possess of its threatening
entireness. These reflections pave the way to a new cosmological 'idea': "It is not us who nullify the world, but it is the world which nullifies us." (20) Hence, human events are not to be brought back into the process of history.