The major ontology of the human community reconstructs being-together as a system of interactions and transactions subject to the rules of economic rationality and, as a consequence, the community as source and target of finite strategical games. This book emphasizes on infinite games in conversation, and the musicality of voices.

Infinite games in conversation, the musicality of voices, understanding by flair and tact, the temporariness of nostalgic memory, reasonable pathos, are what has been emphasized in this book.

Introduction: aestheticizing pragmatics. The gamut of pragmatics. Homo Economicus and Homo Sociologicus. Antilope, Albertine an Penelope - three little ontologies. Modus Logicus and Modus Aestheticus. Part 1 Strategic rationality: Philia and Eris. Calculus and manipulation. The art of war or Kriegskunst. Games of society and games of culture. Part 2 Time, that great sculptor. Saying time. Sensing time. Remembering time. Epilogue - suffering time. Part 3 Abductive understanding: Intuition. Presumption. Habit. Sensibility. Part 4 Reasonable pathos: Prolegomena - the discursive economy of pathos. The regulation of emotions. The logic of sentiments. The reasons of passions. The reasons for desiring passions. Part 5 The sublime and the ambiance of seduction: Hypostasis and critique of the sublime. The schema of aesthetic values. The (sublime) ambiance of seduction. Part 6 The attitude of good taste: Understanding the acceptable. Desiring the obligatory. The royal way. Part 7 Communicating through aisthesis: The pursuit and crisis of foundations. The argumentative and communicative community. The affective community. Socializing the sensible, sensibilizing the social.