In Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community, Roberto Esposito develops a de(con)structionist reading of political philosophy, interested in tracing modernity's attempt to constitute the political as a radical negation (immunization) of our exposure (contagion) to others (communitas). If the task of contemporary political thinking is to interrupt the myth of the common (and its totalitarian features), without falling back completely into the negative and self-destructive power of immunization, political philosophy must be confronted with itself, searching within itself for the traces and points of departure – hermeneutic supports – for such a de(con)structive gesture. Esposito finds and develops these traces in a genealogical line that, starting with Hobbes, goes through Rousseau and Kant and ends with Heidegger and Bataille. By way of this genealogy, Esposito intends to show how modern philosophy would already have started to interrupt the dialectics between the immunization paradigm and the myth of the common. In this paper I argue that Hegel is not only an interesting figure but also an obligatory step in this effort, and in doing so I will pay particular attention to a notion of being-in-common that arises in The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate from his criticism of the violence of law. Hence, Hegel is read here in the light of an unexplored relationship to Esposito's work in Communitas.