ABSTRACT In Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality (2014), Catherine Malabou argues that the current schism between innate a priori and a posteriori manufacture is symptomatic of our failure thus far to think the figure of epigenesis. Based primarily on a close reading of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Malabou maintains that epigenesis configures a possible line of flight beyond both the rigid prior accord of preformation and the magical inorganicism of generatio aequivoca, thereby transforming the principle of reason itself in making available for the first time the generative force proper to thought. In this paper, I aim to further clarify the process of temporal articulation by focusing on the alleged inseparability that Malabou seeks to establish between epigenetic temporality, the biological process to which it refers, and the future of the living being. To this end, I will be guided by three questions: first, why is it that only life possesses the capacity to manufacture within itself the future revelation of prior meaning? Second, on what basis can epigenesis be distinguished from automatism? And third, what exactly is the ‘newly figural’ element of life that for Malabou transforms both the principle of reason and the entire system of critique?

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明天之前的时代：突发事件和机器的寿命

摘要 在《Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality》（2014 年）中，Catherine Malabou 认为，目前先天性和后天性制造之间的分裂是我们迄今为止未能思考后生化形象的征兆。主要基于对康德《纯粹理性批判》的仔细阅读，马拉布坚持认为，后生形成了一条可能的逃逸路线，超越了预先形成的严格先验一致性和无歧义世代的神奇无机主义，从而改变了理性本身的原则，使其可用于第一次产生思维固有的力量。在本文中，我旨在通过关注马拉布试图在表观遗传时间性（它所指的生物过程）之间建立的所谓不可分离性，进一步阐明时间连接的过程，和生物的未来。为此，我将受到三个问题的指导：第一，为什么只有生命才有能力在自身内部制造对先前意义的未来启示？其次，在什么基础上可以将表观遗传与自动化区别开来？第三，对于马拉布来说，改变理性原则和整个批判体系的“新形象”生活元素究竟是什么？