Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : fault lines / Reginald Lilly
  • In search of a civic union : the political theme of European democracy and its primordial foundation in Greek philosophy / Manfred Riedel
  • The Greek polis and the creation of democracy / Cornelius Castoriadis
  • The politics of the chora / John Sallis
  • Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom on the path to democracy / Christian Meier
  • The modern dilemma of political theory / Rüdiger Bubner
  • Paradigm evolution in political philosophy : Aristotle and Hobbes / Manfred Riedel
  • Civil prudence in Machiavelli : toward the paradigm transformation in philosophy in the transition to modernity / Klaus Held
  • Is the present crisis a specifically modern phenomenon? / Paul Ricoeur
  • Remarks on the history of the concept of crisis / Reinhart Koselleck
  • Heritage and revolution / Cornelius Castoriadis
  • Jacob Burckhardt and Max Weber : two conceptions of the origin of the modern world / Wolfgang Hardtwig
  • Nothing and nothing else / Jean-Luc Marion
  • Nothingness and the professional thinker : Arendt versus Heidegger / Jacques Taminiaux
  • The passion of facticity : Heidegger and the problem of love / Giorgio Agamben
  • A medieval model of subjectivity : toward a rediscovery of fleshliness / Rémi Brague
  • "The first times" in Rousseau's Essay on the origin of languages / Victor Gourevitch
  • In search of the political object : Stoic and aesthetic political philosophy / Frank Ankersmit
  • Death and nothingness in literature / Heinrich Mohr
  • Postnormative subjectivity / James Mensch.