 Central to this volume, and what is a fundamental departure from Nietzsche, is Rosenstock-Huessy’s identification of the social processes and elements of tensional reciprocity that are intrinsic to our capacity for space partitioning. Thus, for example, whether it be the family, the workplace, or the army, these institutions function precisely because the members of each institution work on different fronts of reality. Ultimately the work is a critique of the kind of abstract understanding of sociality that sacrifices the reality of tensional reciprocity for a more uniform ‘picture’ of social reality, as he believes has become increasingly typical of modern thought, irrespective of whether it is liberal, fascist, or Marxist.