A Politics of Emancipation

Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
Introduction: The Legacy of Miguel Abensour
	An Intimate Encounter with a Tragic Century
	Which Return? Challenging the Tradition of Political Philosophy
	Political Things and the Critique of Totalitarianism
	Towards a Critical-Utopian Political Philosophy
	A Politics of Emancipation: Democracy and Utopia
	Abensour Today: The Project of a Critical-Utopian Political Philosophy
Part I: The Return of Political Things
	Chapter 1 Manifesto for the “Critique de la Politique” Book Series, Éditions Payot (1974)
	Chapter 2 New Manifesto for the “Critique de la Politique” Book Series, Éditions Klincksieck (2016)
	Chapter 3 Modern Political Philosophy and Emancipation (1983; republished 2009)
	Chapter 4 What Kind of Return? (1994; republished 2009)
Part II: The Critique of Totalitarianism
	Chapter 5 On a Misinterpretation of Totalitarianism and Its Effects (1996; republished 2009)
		Totalitarianism as an Excess of the Political, Its Effects
		Totalitarianism: Total Domination and the Destruction of Politics
	Chapter 6 On Compactness: Architecture and Totalitarian Regimes (1996; republished 1997)
		I. The Strategy of Disjunction: Five Propositions
		II. The Three Critical Demands
			1. Research Hypothesis
			2. Philosophical Interpretations of Totalitarianism: Unity and Diversity
			3. Political Intelligence
		III. Grand Position
			1. No Univocal Relation: The Necessity of Displacement
				a. The Question of the Status of Architecture
				b. The Question of the Threshold?
			2. Totalitarian Regimes, Architecture and Social Bonds
				a. Totalitarian Regimes and New Politics; or Architecture and the Mobilization of the Masses
				b. Totalitarian Regimes and Charismatic Domination
					Architecture and the Direction of the Daemonic
					Time and Politics: Architecture and Entrapping Charisma
				c. Totalitarian Logic, Architecture and Space
					The Depoliticization and Aestheticization of The political: Monumental Art
					Inclusion/Exclusion: The Cathedral of Light/Night and Fog
Part III: Critical-Utopian Political Philosophy
	Chapter 7 Hannah Arendt against Political Philosophy? (2001; republished 2009)
		I. Philosophers and the Denial of Action
		II. The Connection of Philosophy to Death and the Political Question
		III. The Kantian Reversal and the Question of Equality
		Conclusion
	Chapter 8 For a Critical Political Philosophy? (2002; republished 2009)
		Critical Theory as Political Philosophy?
		The Articulation of the Two Paradigms or the Creation of a Critical Political Philosophy
		The Paradigm of the Critique of Domination
		The Political Paradigm
		The Option of Articulation
		Conclusion
Part IV: Utopia, Democracy, and Emancipation
	Chapter 9 E. P. Thompson’s Passion (1988; republished 2012)
	Chapter 10 The New Utopian Spirit (1991; republished 2013)
		The Plurality of Utopian Traditions
		The Dialectic of Emancipation and Utopia
		The New Utopian Spirit and the Issue of Repetition
	Chapter 11 The Utopian Conversion: Utopia and Awakening (2013)
	Chapter 12 Letter from a “Revoltist” to Marcel Gauchet, Convert to “Normal Politics” (2004; republished 2008)
Notes
Bibliography
Index