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Introduction : the Cartesian connection -- The clinical approach to political history -- Emancipative grammars : Laclau, Heller, and the people we are -- Human properties : Villey, Macpherson, and our right to be -- Political subjects : Lacan and ordinary ontologies -- The Freudian paradigm of critical theory -- The two paths to Western democracy -- From democracy to fascism -- Old and new fascisms -- Conclusion : the politics of infinite sets.

In this paper I will try to analyze the very movement of Esposito's thought towards positive, affirmative politics of life based on a positive, affirmative philosophy of life. From my point of view, this philosophical and political passage is extremely difficult if not dangerous. In order to illustrate both the dangers and positive virtualities of Esposito's thought I will focus on three conceptual pairs: subject/life, communitas/immunitas, and impersonal/unavailable. The first two pairs are taken from Esposito's works, the last one is mine and hints at further theoretical developments.

Este artículo argumenta a favor de una solución original a la actual crisis política del proceso de integración europea. La idea subyacente es la de un doble espacio político: el espacio de la soberanía y el espacio de la hospitalidad. Mientras el primero es visto tradicionalmente como el espacio político de los Estados-nación europeos, el segundo podría ser concebido como el espacio político de una nueva Unión Europea, donde ambos, UE y Estados nacionales no-UE podrían encontrar su lugar. Esto implica que renunciemos a la categoría de ciudadano europeo y en su lugar adoptemos la nueva categoría política de huésped europeo. Una solución como ésta ha de ser tomada en seria consideración si la crisis de la eurozona finalmente pone en cuestión la unión monetaria europea y socava el proyecto de los "Estados Unidos de Europa". ; This paper argues for an original solution of the current political crisis affecting the process of European integration. The underlying idea is that of a double political space: the space of sovereignty and the space of hospitality. While the former is traditionally seen as the political space of the European Nation-States, the latter might be conceived as the political space of a new European Union, where both EU and non-Eu nationals could find their place. This implies that we renounce the category of European citizen and adopt the new political category of European guest instead. Such a solution should be taken into serious consideration if the Eurozone crisis will eventually call into question the European currency union and undermine the project of the "United States of Europe".

Modern political power has two branches: the sovereign and the biopolitical. With the former, the state makes laws, with the latter, it governs. Of the two branches of modern power, the sovereign and the biopolitical, this essay attempts to thematise only the latter, trying in particular to emphasise the de-subjectifying effects of biopolitical rationality and focusing on the three levels of biopolitical rationality: its economistic matrix, its epidemiological apparatus, and its ideological order. By briefly analysing these three levels, or registers, of biopower's effectiveness we might understand certain characteristics of the 'mental health' construct and of the role that it has in our societies.