ABSTRACT
At a time when human life appears to be threatened and overpowered by death, their common effort can only be that of 'establishing' it again and again. On the contrary, their relationship has become increasingly closer, to the point it is impossible to talk about politics by removing it from the sphere in which life is generated. Having been established from the very beginning, the people life never coincides with mere biological matter even when it is crushed against it. It resonates in the Christian conception of sacred life, as in the great political philosophical tradition inaugurated by Hobbes. Therefore, at a time when the people are doing all that is in their power to stay alive, as is understandable, they cannot renounce the second life with others, for others, through others. Nor does it diminish the need to continue, despite everything, and even more so at a time when social relations are wounded, to live in common.
