ABSTRACT
To defend this 'strong' claim the author will align the law/love distinction to another, that between the reductive and the reflexive. In law as opposed to love, the legal person's expectation will turn normative at the point at which the law designates a disappointment, sanctions an attribution of wrong-doing and provides remedies for the frustrated expectation. The very differentiation of cognitive and normative depends on whether the people are approaching the loving relationship from law or from love. One cannot sever the intimate dialectic between community and love as one cannot sever it between community and politics by imposing law as the mediator. The fragile community exists in articulating its shared commitment, and, significantly, is potentially created and dissolved at every moment of social life because the shared commitment that constitutes it is dynamic, it exists in time. Love and politics absorb freedom and elevate it to their constitutive moment.
