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From the Concept of the Political to the Event of Politics

"From the concept of the political to the event of politics": as always, the title is a promise and a contract. In keeping with this titular undertaking, which outlines a certain itinerary or trajectory, the reader might expect to be guided from the abstract sterility of the concept to the concrete level of political events as they unfold in history, from a higher to a lower level of analysis, from the general to the singular, from the speculative (in the Hegelian sense) to the positively demonstrable.¹ Right from the outset, let us be clear on the terms of the contract...