Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I Missed Understandings
5. 1 Reading Political Theory in Postwar America and Postwar France 33
6. 2 Mimesis, the explication de texte, and State Thinking 77
7. PART II Dispositionalities
8. Preface 95
9. 3 Jean Wahl, Empirico-Criticism, and the Concrete 99
10. 4 Simone de Beauvoir and the Elementary Structures of Patriarchy 116
11. 5 More than a Unity: Gilbert Simondon’s Sentimental Empiricism 149
12. 6 Gilles Deleuze: Displacing Reflection 167
13. 7 Michel Foucault and the Political Ontology of the Dispositif 184
14. Epilogue 211
15. Acknowledgments 219
16. Notes 223
17. Bibliography 267
18. Index 285