Politics shares with philosophy its attempts at systematization. What in politics is o en lamented as a progressive bureaucratization and obfuscation of revolutionary fervor is presented in philosophy as the maturation of a system, metaphysical, ontological, or otherwise. This slow process of maturation that supposedly takes place throughout a philosopher’s life is organized around the establishment of concepts, ideas, and notions, and any philosophy that distances itself from this process of accumulation or growth is quickly labeled childish or immature, not ripe to speak for itself. As in politics, we may speak in philosophy of processes of legalization bound up with the question of maturation (“reaching legal age”) as guarantee for its internal conceptual stability. These processes, however, whenever they are invoked, seem to announce a future of paralysis and amnesia that comes with philosophical maturity and eventually old age, a future in which philosophical youth is definitely absent. […]