…thor, although often referring to occurrences long after Stow’s death. What the reader of to-day wants, is the original work as it left the hands of the veteran antiquary, or as nearly as the change of spelling allows, because this gives him a vivid picture of Elizabethan London—…

…and structured in advance by the intelligible world in which he finds himself already thrown, man relates to other beings in a pre-conceptual way by fore-listening and fore-seeing. Described at times as a knowing « with the heart », this fore-seeing differs from the traditional l…