| Contents |
The structure of the political vs. the politics of hope / William Rasch -- The function of ambivalence in Agamben's reontologization of politics / Eva Geulen -- Twenty-five theses on philosophy in the age of finance capital / Nicholas Brown and Imre Szemán -- Periodizing the 80s: the cultural logic of economic privatization in the United States / Jeffrey T. Nealon -- Marxist theory: from aesthetic critique to cultural politics / Philip Goldstein -- Is socialism the index of a leftist ontology? / Benjamin Robinson -- Deconstruction and experience: the politics of the undeconstructable / Roland Végső -- Politics and the fiction of the political / Sorin Radu-Cucu -- The last God: María Zambrano's life without texture / Alberto Moreiras -- Signification and substance: toward a leftist ontology of the present / Christopher Breu -- A politics of melancholia / Klaus Mladek and George Edmondson -- Afterword: thinking, being, acting; or, on the usese and disadvantages of ontology for politics / Bruno Bosteels. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009007475 |
| ISBN | 9780816650293 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816650292 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780816650309 (pb : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0816650306 (pb : alk. paper) |
