As a response to Mario Vergani’s phenomenology of existence, this review focuses on the no-tions of separation and enjoyment. These notions seem to be the most relevant ones in order to rethink the birth beyond historical time and totality. After having pointed out the specific idea of phenomenality emerging from this book proposal, the paper thus stresses the influence of Lévinas’s reflections about commencement on Vergani’s interpretation of the existent as a separated body.
