A major new work that breaks ground in the political understanding of both theory and action.

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Part I: Passions
  • 1 From Torrents to Patterns
  • 2 Passion Locates the Self
  • 3 From Patterns to Configurations of Appearance
  • 4 What Does the Other Want?
• Part II: Action
  • 5 Locating Action
  • 6 Conflict and Models of Political Action
• Part III: Government
  • 7 The Problem of Faction and Three Partial Solutions
  • 8 Schema of Justice, Its Critique, and Political Economy
  • 9 Theory of Government
• Part IV: Beyond Government
  • 10 Critique of Government
  • 11 Theory of Democratic Enthusiasm
• Coda
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author