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Abstract: What is the relationship between evidence and non-evidence? If the mere tension between immediacy and mediacy does not encapsulate their opposition, it is because the lack of evidence affects not only what is immediately accessible, but also the system of our mediations, be they social, symbolic, or unconscious. In this paper, I analyze Wolfgang Blankenburg’s approach of the loss of the natural evidence with the help of a phenomenology of gestures. My goal is to show that the case of mental alienation analyzed by Blankenburg can be seen in a different light from the perspective of an imaginative absorption that highlights the actual aspect of gestures and their latent sense-sedimentation. Gestures are concrete and infinite at the same time, because they are the living mark of our social inscription and the anchor of our presence to ourselves and to the others in a history of habits and of rituals. Therefore, the loss of the natural evidence is first of all the loss of a commonality of experience that cannot possibly be restored without allowing for processes of sense-sedimentation to expand again.

Mots-clefs: Blankenburg, imagination, meaning.

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