Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation vii
4. Preliminary Words xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Thesis 1. Corruption and the Political Field: The Public and the Private 3
7. Part One: THE PREVAILING POLITICAL ORDER
8. Thesis 2. The Political Power of the Community as Potentia 11
9. Thesis 3. Institutional Power as Potestas 18
10. Thesis 4. Obediential Power 24
11. Thesis 5. The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination 30
12. Thesis 6. Strategic Political Action 36
13. Thesis 7. The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity 43
14. Thesis 8. Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability 50
15. Thesis 9. Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle 56
16. Thesis 10. The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics 62
17. Part Two: THE CRITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE POLITICAL: TOWARD THE NEW POLITICAL ORDER
18. Thesis 11. The People: The Popular Sector and ‘‘Populism’’ 69
19. Thesis 12. Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the ‘‘State of Rebellion’’ 78
20. Thesis 13. The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle 83
21. Thesis 14. The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles 88
22. Thesis 15. Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements 94
23. Thesis 16. Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony 103
24. Thesis 17. Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates 108
25. Thesis 18. Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: ‘‘Perpetual Life’’ and Solidarity 114
26. Thesis 19. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: ‘‘Perpetual Peace’’ and Alterity 122
27. Thesis 20. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The ‘‘Dissolution of the State’’? Liberation 131
28. Notes 139
29. Bibliography 151
30. Index 155