Imprescindibile uguaglianza: ripensare il diritto ad avere diritti nella riflessione di Alexis de Tocqueville e Hannah Arendt

This paper outlines a dialogue about liberty between Hannah Arendt and un libéral d’une espece nouvelle, indicating the contours of modern depolitization. At stake are the elements characterizing the jobholder society, the milieu of a new kind of man. The aristocratic Norman analyzes l’homme démocratique and Arendt finds him as the anthropological prerequisite of totalitarianism, the unprecedented regime that rises in Twentieth century, first of all in Germany. In normalized time he is still there with his weakness, loneliness and love for les jouissances matérielles: l’individualisme doesn’t disappear, so the real challenge for the liberal-democracy becomes the céntralisation, in other words the rule of Nobody.