Retracing the way I have followed since the beginning of my philosophical studies, I focus on the main issues that have guided my teaching and research: Time, Death, and Nothingness, all of which take place in the domain of what I have called “negative philosophy”. My first interest was in the problem of language and logic in their relation to temporality, a special privilege being granted in this respect to poetry; subsequently I concentrated my work on the thematic of death and finitude, in order to show that mourning and relation to absence are what establish a fundamental difference between the human being and the animal; and finally, the critique of Western ontology has brought me to concentrate my research on Eastern thinking, with a special engagement with the thematic of nothingness in Indian and Japanese Buddhism. All my work in philosophy has been guided by Heidegger’s question of the relation between Being and Time.

回顾我自哲学研究开始以来所遵循的方式，我专注于指导我的教学和研究的主要问题：时间，死亡和虚无，所有这些都发生在我所谓的“否定性”领域哲学”。我的第一个兴趣是语言和逻辑与时间性的关系问题，在这方面赋予诗歌以特殊的特权。随后，我将工作重点放在死亡和有限的主题上，以表明哀悼和与缺席的关系是造成人与动物之间根本区别的原因。最后，对西方本体论的批判使我集中精力研究东方思想，并特别关注印度和日本佛教的虚无主题。