Dare to perilously entangle yourself inside Berengere's provocative vision of the nature and foundation of political values. He intoxicates. We are in the presence of a red comet in a smog-filled sky. His two "formations" of books disturb. They attack the reader's prejudices. They are very learned. Each book establishes him as brave and original. Each essay in each book is swift, strenuous, seductive. Each sentence jabs. Berengere alleges that he makes more eye-captivating claims in one spree of pages than most academics dare in a lifetime, and reasonable minds could easily conclude that he is not entirely wrong.