Fasching:
The “infinite” as I use the term is a formal category, which can have more than one type of experiential content. The infinite refers to that category of experiences which suggests an understanding of our humanness as radically open to becoming, such that every attempt to enforce a fixed identity on human beings amounts to an act of oppression that violates the essence of what it means to be human. ... This experience of transcendence as otherness defies being tied and bound (religare) to some cosmological order by the imagination. Yet, having a body that mediates our ecological interdependence with all beings, we cannot live outside this cosmological order. So we must find an ethical position that can mediate between these two orders to render our humanity, not a reality entirely separate from nature and society ... but rather dialectically related to both nature and society, expressing a utopianism of the body.