Reinterpreting the political Book

	Introduction: The Question of the Political
1	Kierkegaard on Authoring and Identity from the Perspective of Havel's Existential Revolution and Nonpolitical Politics	1
2	A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy	19
3	Husserl's Gottingen Years and the Genesis of a Theory of Community	39
4	Edith Stein's Phenomenology of the State	51
5	Beauvoir and the Roots of Radical Feminism	65
6	Action, Passion, and Responsibility: Levinas's Circumcision of Consciousness	93
7	Lyotard's Kantian Account of the Sublime and Democratic Discourse	107
8	The Circle of the Origin	127
9	Fichte, Habermas, and Luc Ferry	141
10	Rights, Narrative, and Legal Practice	155
11	Reconsidering the Limits of Democracy with Castoriadis and Lefort	171
12	Against Dialogue	183
13	Decentered Autonomy: The Subject after the Fall	197
14	American/French Intersections: The Play of Race/Class/Politics in Irigaray	209
15	Beheading the King: Foucault on the Limits of Juridical Thought	233
16	Power: Method of the Deployments of Sexuality	249
17	Beyond Pluralism: Foucault's Strategic Counter to Heterosexist Categories	261
18	Of Perestroika, Glasnost, and Badgers: Barthes and Foucault on Power and Discourse	277
19	Truth and Power in Foucault	289
20	Expert Discourses of Critique: Foucault as Power/Knowledge	307
	List of Contributors	317
	Index	323