This work contains twelve chapters configured as open books and lines of escape from mutual knowledge. It is a commitment to the political rehabilitation of the imaginary, of the s. XIX, of heroism, of the powers of awakening and of the always lurking threat of myth. He says of the one who reminds us that, no matter how deep the loss of freedom is, freedom is never lost. It speaks of the night of totalitarianism, of the radical distinction between power and violence, of the "against" as the first philosophical disposition, of insurgent democracy, of the conflict that is situated outside the State and against it, of the politics of the Ancients, from La Boétie, from Spinoza, from Marx, from Benjamin, from Clastres... from a discreet but influential philosopher: Miguel Abensour.