Abstract

In this text, the focus is on the «body to body» encounter that Recchia Luciani undertakes with Jean-Luc Nancy. The deconstruction of the Western subject is conducted by Recchia Luciani starting from Jean-Luc Nancy’s aptic ontology. Touch thus becomes the quintessential sense that enables a thought of openness aimed at the «heart of things». Nancy’s aptology totally deconstructs the image of any identity because the experience of touching oneself is by definition nominal; it’s an edge touching an edge, a limit. Here, according to Recchia Luciani, the aptic experience occurs, which becomes a relationship with the space between the self and the outside of oneself, namely exposure to openness and to limit that becomes threshold, edge, boundary, and shore.