Responding to the Crises of Symbol and Subject in Modernity: Towards a Generative Nomos of Relational Presence

Subjectivity constitutes a fundamental condition for human understanding and participation in the world. Its emergence, construction, presence, and transformation have long preoccupied philosophical inquiry. This paper examines the epistemological and ontological disintegration characteristic of late modernity, which is a condition in which the mediations that once sustained meaning and subjectivity lose coherence. We refer to this condition as the Symbolic Crisis: a rupture in the symbolic order's mediating function that fractures relationality at both the ontological and structural levels. The crisis appears in phenomena such as the erosion of trust, the weakening of shared meaning, and the growing separation between lived relation and symbolic representation. Our intervention centers on two concepts: relationality and generative presence. We introduce these as theoretical orientations: relationality provides an ontological foundation through which existence becomes apprehensible beyond the limits of symbolic articulation. Generative presence describes the epistemic and phenomenological process through which relational being becomes active in lived experience, even as the metaphysical subject remains structurally open. Through presence, relational beings bring forth meaning and allow existence to manifest within concrete situations. Within this framework, law and justice appear as forms of symbolic mediation whose force emerges from the interplay between formal structures and the generativity expressed in interpretive and practical engagement. These structures, however, cannot address the Symbolic Crisis on their own, because the crisis originates in the widening separation between being and its mediation. The juridical movement reorients justice toward relational being and the ongoing processes through which its authority and meaning are produced and sustained. The extra juridical movement cultivates the formation and expressive realization of generative presence within relational existence. Together, these movements offer a pathway for reapproaching the subject and for restoring the resonance between being and meaning under contemporary conditions of symbolic fragmentation.