Looks at qustions, such as: What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when both the sovereign individual and sovereign states seem tenuous, when desire seems as likely to seek punishment as freedom, when all political conviction is revealed as contingent and subjective? Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3(15)
Politics Out of History
Symptoms
18(27)
Moralism as Anti-Politics
Desire
45(17)
The Desire to Be Punished: Freud's ```A Child Is Being Beaten'''
Power
62(29)
Power without Logic without Marx
Politics
91(30)
Politics without Banisters: Genealogical Politics in Nietzsche and Foucault
Democracy
121(17)
Democracy against Itself: Nietzsche's Challenge
Futures
138(37)
Specters and Angels: Benjamin and Derrida
Notes
175(14)
Index
189
