Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: After the Controversy 1
5. Overture: Citizen Subject. Response to Jean- Luc Nancy’s Question “Who Comes After the Subject?” 19
6. Annex: Subjectus/subjectum 40
7. Part I. “Our True Self Is Not Entirely Within Us”
8. 1. “Ego sum, ego existo”: Descartes on the Verge of Heresy 55
9. 2. “My Self,” “My Own”: Variations on Locke 74
10. 3. Aimances in Rousseau: Julie or The New Heloise as Treatise on the Passions 92
11. 4. From Sense Certainty to the Law of Genre: Hegel, Benveniste, Derrida 106
12. Part II. Being(s) in Common
13. 5. Ich, das Wir, und Wir, das Ich ist: Spirit’s Dictum 123
14. 6. The Messianic Moment in Marx 143
15. 7. Zur Sache Selbst: The Common and the Universal in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 155
16. 8. Men, Armies, Peoples: Tolstoy and the Subject of War 173
17. 9. The Social Contract Among Commodities: Marx and the Subject of Exchange 185
18. Part III. The Right to Transgression
19. 10. Judging Self and Others: On the Political Theory of Reflexive Individualism 205
20. 11. Private Crime, Public Madness 213
21. 12. The Invention of the Superego: Freud and Kelsen, 1922 227
22. 13. Blanchot’s Insubordination: On the Writing of the Manifesto of the 121 256
23. Part IV. The III- Being of the Subject
24. 14. Bourgeois Universality and Anthropological Differences 275
25. Notes 303
26. Index 387