“Reason, Husserl says, is the logos which is produced in history. It traverses Being with itself in sight, in order to appear to itself, that is, to state itself and hear itself as logos .... It emerges from itself in order to take hold of itself within itself, in the ‘living present’ of its self- presence. In emerging from itself, [logos as] hearing oneself speak con- stitutes itself as the history of reason through the detour of writing. Thus it differs from itself in order to reappropriate itself. The Origin of Geometry describes the necessity of this exposition of reason in a worldly inscription.