Introduction: On Massimo Cacciari's disenchanted activism / Alessandro Carrera -- Impracticable utopias : Hofmannsthal, Lukács, Benjamin -- Nietzsche and the unpolitical -- Weber and the critique of socialist reason -- Project -- Catastrophes -- The language of power in Canetti : a scrutiny -- Law and justice : on the theological and mystical dimensions of the modern political -- The geophilosophy of Europe -- Weber and the politician as tragic hero.