An opulence of virtue -- Death of a king -- Markets and morals -- An opulence of virtue -- Ethical citizenship -- A crisis of loneliness -- Who cares? -- Ethical citizenship -- The moral neoliberal -- Consecrations: from welfare state to welfare community -- The oath -- Welfare community -- Sacred social -- Sacralizing "activity" -- A temple of humanity -- The ethical state -- Social capitalism -- The Catholicization of neoliberalism -- The production of compassion -- A heartfelt citizenship -- The production of dispassion -- The production of compassion 1: the public management of virtue -- The production of compassion 2: education of desire -- The production of compassion 3: arts of suffering, feeling, listening -- The production of compassion 4: empowerment -- Doubt -- Privatizing the public sphere -- An age full of virtue -- Super seniors -- An age full of virtue -- Labor, life cycle, and generational contract -- Learning to labor, or, citizenship as work -- Care of the self -- A new generational contract -- Aftereffects of utopian practice -- The question of solidarity -- Lavoro or impegno? work or commitment? -- Passions at work -- Aftereffects of utopian practice -- From politics to ethics -- From ethics to politics; or, the social life of social citizenship -- The private face of privatization -- Enemy in the house -- The professor and the angel -- Ethical citizenship as relational labor -- The ethics of relational labor -- Appearing in public -- Disengagement -- Wounding and healing