... in a reconciled condition, human beings would grant proximity to the “beautiful alien” (no, nature is not alien, it is "beautiful LIFE") (das schone Fremde), while simultaneously allowing the alien Other to remain “distant and different, beyond the heterogeneous and beyond that which is one’s own” (ND 191).
However, reconciliation cannot be achieved by means of thought alone.
Non- identity thinking is not sufficient for reconciliation because reconciliation ultimately depends on altering the relationship between an equally problematic iteration of universal and particular, namely the relationship between society and the individuals it comprises. As Chapter 4 will show, to think differently, individuals must first be able to live differently. (ibid, p. 90)
now, this is encouraging
