Hate and enmity are the order of the day whilst love seems to flounder around in the private sphere as both a means of reclusion, a mode of fending-off economic bankruptcy and as a means of strengthening the ego. Such an individualising notion of love, one represented to us as a goal pertaining to personal fulfilment, does not help us overcome our own boundaries, it does not lead to an overspill of the person as a singular multiplicity (individual-gemeinwesen), it has no other social horizon than the limits of family and state.