This paper outlines a dialogue about liberty between Hannah Arendt and un libéral d’une espece nouvelle , indicating the contours of modern depolitization. At stake are the elements character- izing the jobholder society, the milieu of a new kind of man. The aristocratic Norman analyzes l’homme démocratique and Arendt finds him as the anthropological prerequisite of totalitarian- ism, the unprecedented regime that rises in Twentieth century, first of all in Germany. In nor- malized time he is still there with his weakness, loneliness and love for les jouissances matérielles : l’individualisme doesn’t disappear, so the real challenge for the liberal-democracy becomes the céntralisation , in other words the rule of Nobody.
