Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Expanded Contents List vii
4. Introduction: On the Absent Ground of the Social 1
5. Chapter 1 The Contours of ‘Left Heideggerianism’: Post-Foundationalism and Necessary Contingency 11
6. Chapter 2 Politics and the Political: Genealogy of a Conceptual Difference 35
7. Chapter 3 Retracing the Political Difference: Jean-Luc Nancy 61
8. Chapter 4 The Machiavellian Moment Re-Theorized: Claude Lefort 85
9. Chapter 5 The State and the Politics of Truth: Alain Badiou 109
10. Chapter 6 The Political and the Impossibility of Society: Ernesto Laclau 134
11. Chapter 7 Founding Post-Foundationalism: A Political Ontology 154
12. Bibliography 179
13. Index 193