Mark Antaki
Faculty of Law, McGill University

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University. I would like to thank Kirsten Anker, Shai Lavi, and Alexandra Popovici for their helpful comments on various drafts of this paper. I would also like to thank the participants in the Critical Modernities: Politics and Law Beyond the Liberal Imagination Cegla Center conference at the University of Tel Aviv. In particular, I would like to thank Annabel Herzog who graciously commented on my presentation of a previous version of this paper. In her remarks, she rightly emphasized Arendt’s intellectual debt to Walter Benjamin. I am afraid I did not even try to do justice to this relation in the present text.