The common deception

Abstract

The article tries to describe the fundamental gesture of contemporary French debates around community with the help of an analysis of emotive disposition of «deception». Deception, considered ad a non-negative disposition in front of the end of political ideals, would represent a central climax of deconstructive task concerning political philosophy: it forces to abandon the possibility of «deduce» and «solve» the political question of being-in-common through a rational basis, and to the impossibility of theoretical recourse able to «axiomatise» the notion of community. That gesture, essentially close to a Nietzschean nihilistic posture, demands to risk, or philosophically assume the challenge, of having into the thinking of the political a catastrophic principle of his concept.