Beschreibung:
"Many people have become painfully aware of the detachment of a 'worldless textualism' from anything resembling political reality, a reality to be distinguished from grandiose political pronouncements. Lefort's "Writing" offers a philosophical reflection deeply embeded within the political."--Bernard Flynn, New School for Social Research
Translator's Foreword viiAuthor's Preface xxxixThe Interposed Body: George Orwell's Ninetenn Eighty-Four 1Humanism and Anti-Humanism: Homage to Salman Rushdie 20Tocqueville: Democracy and the Art of Writing 35An Exploration of the Flesh of the Social: Note on Democracy in America 35A Thinkng of Contraries: Note on The Old Regime and the Revolution 49Sade: The Boudoir and the City 67Guizot: Polemical LIberalism 85Machiavelli and the Verita Effetuale 109The Idea of Humanity and the Project of Universal Peace 142The Revolution as New Religion 159Three Notes on Leo Strauss 172Dialogue with Pierre Clastres 207Philospher? 236Reflections on the Present 252Decomposition of Totalitarianism 252Rebirth of Democracy 256The Test of Truth 273Index 281