Our era has inherited the heavy tradition of denial: of God, of Nature, of Inequality. Once, one could deny God in the name of people, Nature in the name of spirit, class society in the name of equality. One could deny it all, every atom of existence, striving to hasten the arrival of that which had not yet come. And this 'yet'... inspired sacrifice and justified murder.

But if expectations are absent, what remains? Since history does not protect, let a path be found amid the random. And here begins the work of affirmation. A difficult task. For what will the fatigue rest upon to stammer a yes?

The Stoic, the Christian, each in their own way adhered to the 'embracing of events.' Epictetus, Spinoza, Pascal endure because there is a Universe or a God. Even the denier Nietzsche preaches amor fati while awaiting the Übermensch, and Marx 'tolerates' capitalism because in the end, it would facilitate communism. Today, in the name of what would the present be tolerated?

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]