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1 notes on the editors and contributors Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis has recently received his PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur s hermeneutics of imagination, his thesis investigates the functions of opposing scientific metaphors in politics and the dialectical relationship between their social imaginaries. Parts of his work appear in Politics at the Edge, ed. C. Pierson and S. Tormey (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 2000), and in the forthcoming collection of essays on Paul Ricoeur, Interpretation, Values, Action, ed. Y.B. Raynova (Vienna: Vienna Institute for Axiological Research and Peter Lang Publishing Group). He is currently teaching Political Philosophy and International Relations Theory at the New York College and the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He is also an attorney-at-law at the Law Bar of Thessaloniki and a co-founder of the Hellenic Association of Public International Law and International Relations. Benjamin Arditi was recently Professor of Politics in the Faculty of Politics and Social Sciences of the National University of Mexico, where he taught political theory. He is the author (with Jeremy Valentine) of Polemicization: The contingency of the commonplace (Edinburgh University Press and New York University Press, 1999); La Política en los Bordes del Liberalismo (Buenos Aires, 2005). He is also the editor of El Reverso de la Diferencia: Identidad y política (Caracas, 2000) and Democracia Postliberal? El espacio político de las asociaciones (Barcelona, 2005). His recent publications include articles on identity politics, populism, the concept of revolution, resistances to globalism and post-liberal politics. He is the co-general editor of Taking on the Political, a book series on Continental Political Thought published by Edinburgh University Press. Gordon A. Babst is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Chapman University in Orange, California, where he teaches political philosophy. He is the author of Liberal Constitutionalism, Marriage, and Sexual Orientation: A contemporary case for disestablishment (Peter Lang, 2002). His research focuses critical attention on the role of religion in modern liberal-democratic society, as well as contemporary issues of diversity, law, and toleration. Andrew Barry is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is 325

2 326 palgrave advances in continental political thought the author of Political Machines: Governing a technological society (Athlone, 2001) and co-editor of Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, neo-liberalism and rationalities of government (UCL Press, 1996). Anthony Burns is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Theory in the School of Politics at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Natural Law and Political Ideology in the Philosophy of Hegel (Ashgate, 1996) and co-editor (with Ian Fraser) of The Hegel Marx Connection (Palgrave, 2000). He has published articles in a variety of journals, including History of Political Thought, Political Studies, Utopian Studies, History of the Human Sciences and The Sociological Review. Kirsten Campbell lectures in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has published work on psychoanalysis and law, human rights and feminist theory, and is author of Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology (London and New York, 2004). She is editor of the Journal of Lacanian Studies. Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol. His DPhil dissertation was on Marx s methodology and he has published extensively on Marx, Engels and Marxism, as well as on sex, gender and sexuality from a postmodern perspective. His most recent books are The Postmodern Marx (Manchester University Press, 1998) and Men in Political Theory (Manchester University Press, 2004). Renato Cristi teaches political philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He is the author of Le libéralisme conservateur: Trois essaies sur Schmitt, Hayek et Hegel (Paris: Kimé, 1993) and Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Liberalism: Strong state, free economy (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998). Some of his articles have appeared in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, and History of Political Thought. Glyn Daly is Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton. He is author of Conversations with Žižek (Cambridge, 2003) and has published other work on Marxism and post-marxism, and ideology and fantasy. His Žižek: Ideology, the Real and the Subject is in preparation. Michael Dillon is Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster. His books include Dependence and Deterrence (Gower, 1983); Defence Decision Making: A comparative analysis (Pinter, 1988); The Falklands Politics and War (Macmillan, 1989); The Political Subject of Violence, ed. with David Campbell (Manchester University Press, 1993), and Politics of Security: Towards a political philosophy of continental thought (Routledge, 1996). He has also written extensively on cultural and political theory for a wide variety of academic journals, and is co-editor of the Journal for Cultural Research. He is currently working on three related projects: The Liberal Way of War (with Julian Reid), Governing Terror, and Divine Violence (with Paul Fletcher). He would like to express his thanks to Mark Lacy, Cindy Weber, Paul Fletcher and Paolo Palladino for conversations in aid of his chapter on Derrida. Timothy Hall is Lecturer in Politics at the University of East London. His main interests are German idealist political thought and critical social theory. He wrote his PhD (2002) on the social and political thought of Georg Lukács at the Department of Philosophy,

3 notes on the editors and contributors 327 University of Essex. He is currently writing a book on Lukács and is also co-authoring a book entitled The Modern State: Theories and ideologies for Edinburgh University Press. Timothy W. Luke is Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and has written on postmodern themes for many years. His books include Screens of Power: Ideology, domination and resistance in information society (University of Illinois Press, 1989), Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, dissent and revolution (Sage, 1990), and Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: Departing from Marx (University of Illinois Press, 1999). Bradley J. Macdonald is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University, where he teaches political theory. He is the author of William Morris and the Aesthetic Constitution of Politics (Lexington Books, 1999), editor (with R.L. Rutsky) of Strategies for Theory: From Marx to Madonna (SUNY Press, 2003), and co-founder/co-editor of the interdisciplinary theory journal, Strategies: Journal of theory, culture, and politics. He is also the author of essays/chapters in journals and books on issues associated with contemporary political theory, Western Marxism and cultural politics. James Martin is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His publications include Gramsci s Political Analysis: A critical introduction (Macmillan, 1998) and, as editor, Antonio Gramsci: Critical assessments (Routledge, 2002). He is the co-author (with Steve Bastow) of Third Way Discourse (Edinburgh University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Marx s Eighteenth Brumaire: (Post)modern interpretations (Pluto Press, 2002). He has also published articles on poststructuralist theory and Italian political thought. Keith Spence is Lecturer in Security and Risk at the University of Leicester, Scarman Centre. His research interests include hermeneutical and poststructuralist theorisations of contemporary politics. He is the author of Modernity, Freedom and Community: Charles Taylor and political philosophy (University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2006). Lasse Thomassen is Teaching Fellow in Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He is the author of articles, chapters and reviews on Habermas and poststructuralist theory, the co-editor (with Lars Tønder) of Radical Democracy: Politics between abundance and lack (2005), and the editor of The Derrida Habermas Reader (forthcoming). He is currently working on a research monograph on Habermas and Radical Democracy. Roy T. Tsao is Lecturer in the Humanities at Yale University, where he also teaches in the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics. He has published articles on the work of Hannah Arendt in several scholarly journals and is completing a book-length study of her thought. Nathan Widder is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on issues of identity, difference, power, and knowledge, worked out through engagements with contemporary Continental philosophy on the one hand, and with ancient and medieval philosophies, on the other. He is the author of Genealogies of Difference (University of Illinois Press, 2002), and he is currently working on two book-

4 328 palgrave advances in continental political thought length projects: one on ontologies of time and their relation to politics, and the other on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Caroline Williams lectures in political theory at Queen Mary College, University of London, and is author of Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the persistence of the subject (London, 2001). She has published research on Althusser, Spinoza, theories of ideology and the subject, and is currently preparing a monograph on Spinoza s writings. Howard Williams is Professor in Political Theory at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of Kant s Political Philosophy (1983); Concepts of Ideology (1988); Hegel, Heraclitus and Marx s Dialectic (1989); International Relations in Political Theory (1991), and International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory (1996), and has edited volumes on Kant s Political Philosophy (1992) and Political Thought and German Reunification (2000). His most recent book is Kant s Critique of Hobbes: Sovereignty and cosmopolitanism (2003), and he is currently editor of the journal Kantian Review. In 2004 he was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and the Jagellonian University, Krakow. Edward Wingenbach is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California. His work focuses on democratic theory (particularly deliberative democracy, social choice theory and issues of representation) and on contemporary European social thought. His articles have appeared in a range of journals and books in political science, philosophy and political theory, including the American Journal of Political Science, Strategies, and The Journal of Politics. He is a member of the Founding Committee of the Association for Political Theory.

5 index Althusser, Louis, 10 11, and Hegel, 186 7, 189 and Marx, and Spinoza, 190 criticism of, life, works Arendt, Hannah, 10, freedom, influence, life, political theory, public realm, relevance, totalitarianism, works Baudrillard, Jean, 12 13, and the internet, 295 criticism of, 297 8, cultural critique, 291 5, hyperreality, influence, , life 290 power, simulacra, works Continental Political Thought, 3 8, 13, 60, 91, 98, Deleuze, Gilles, 12, and Lacan, 276 and Nietzsche, identity, 275 9, influence, life, 274 politics, power, segments, works, 274 Derrida, Jacques, 12, and Foucault, 262 and language, deconstruction, democracy, life on reading, politics, works, 261 Foucault, Michel, 11 12, contingency, governmentality, life 244 methodology, politics, 248 relevance, 256 sexuality, technologies, works, 5 Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 9, and Derrida, 116 and Habermas, and Heidegger, 108, 110 and Rorty, 117 hermeneutics, , influence, life, phenomenology, works, 106 7,

6 330 palgrave advances in continental political thought Gramsci, Antonio, 10, and Laclau and Mouffe, communist society, 146 hegemony, influence, 136 7, life, Marxism, revolution, Habermas, Jürgen, 11, communicative action, criticism of, deliberative democracy, discourse ethics, influence, 196, international relations, 207 life, Hegel, G.W.F., 8, and poststructuralism, 53 6 influence, 52 philosophy, 46 8 political thought, relevance, 52 6 theodicy, 48 9 Heidegger, Martin, 9, and democracy, 95 6 and freedom, and liberalism, and meaning, 91 5 life, politics, 96 9 Kant, Immanuel, 8, and Rawls, 34 critical philosophy, 33 5 life, 32 3 political writings, 37 9 theory and practice, 35 6 world order, Lacan, Jacques, 11, and Bhabha, and Žižek, 218, 219 influence, 213, life, race, sexual difference, sexuality, subjectivity, works, Lukács, Georg, 10, and economic structure, influence 152 3, life, 152 Marxism praxis, social theory, Marx, Karl, 8, and Derrida, critique, 60 3 emancipation, 65 7 politics, praxis, 63 5 relevance, 70 1 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8 9, and liberalism, 75 6 life, 74 5 overman, 84 5, 86 perspectivism, political philosophy, 73 4, will to power, 81 4, 86 political thought, Continental, see Continental Political Thought Ricoeur, Paul, 11, ideology, 233 5, influence, political thought, 231 3, utopia, works, Schmitt, Carl, 9, and Hegel, 124, 126, 127 and Hobbes, 132, conservatism, constitutional principles, life, 120 state, the political, works, Spinoza, Baruch de, 8, and Althusser, 24 6 and Balibar, 27 9 and democracy, 26 9 and Negri, Antonio, 27 9 and sexual difference, 29 and social contract, 22 4 life, 18 mind and body, 21 2 monism, works 19 Žižek, Slavoj, 13, and Kant, and psychoanalysis, , , 322 ideology, influence, life, 308 politics, 322 the Real,