Sublime

Philosophically, modernity is often referred to as “The Age of Man.” In ascension since the Renaissance, it crystallized toward the end of the 18th century into a configuration of knowledge that French philosopher Michel Foucault characterized as an episteme in which the figure of Man as the foundation of all possible knowledge. Jamaican

to the end that the office might be powerful and the officer insignificant,

homo sacer: in Roman law, a person banned from society, excluded from its legal protections but still subject to the sovereign’s power.

Pour entrer dans le XXIe siècle, l’État doit redevenir humble, ouvert, flexible, humaniste, réduit à ses fonctions régaliennes et géostratégiques. Un État-coach, qui inspire et encadre l’innovation. Un État-manageur moderne, qui accompagne la vie économique, sans prétendre à la régenter.

Applying inflexible rules to a constantly shifting political landscape destroys societies.

Não se tem mais o direito de sacrificar os indivíduos para proteger o Todo, pois o Todo não é nada mais do que a soma dos indivíduos, uma construção ideal na qual cada ser humano, porque é “um fim em si”, não pode mais ser tratado como um simples meio.

Havel, who died in 2011, preached what he called “antipolitical politics,” the essence of which he described as “living in truth.” His most famous and thorough statement of this was a long 1978 essay titled “The Power of the Powerless,”

Against a world that is de-facticized into a process that can be regulated and produced, Heidegger invokes the ‘unproducable’ or the ‘mystery’ [das Geheimnis].