Passion of Hospitality, Hospitable Passion: Conceals Relationship

Abstract

This is a commentary on Davide Tarizzo’s essay published in this volume that tries to read it against the background of the possibility of the infinite suspension of sovereignty. Tarizzo stops short of suspending sovereignty, in his proposal for a future of the European Union, in order to suspend its very question for the sake of political realism. While political realism is commendable, it leaves itself open to the possibility of theoretical concealment. My contention is that Tarizzo’s essay hides a disavowed radicality that cancels out the possibility of political-historical teleology in favor of a posthegemonic democratic conflagration. I present Tarizzo’s proposal as a sort of inversion of Heidegger’s post-WWII thoughts on European inhabitation.