Introduction: Political thought in the fog of war
The neoconservative illusion
The frailty of human affairs
Death and the governor of Texas
The new American exceptionalism
Al Qaeda and ultimate ends
The ordeal of universalism
September 11 and fables of the left
The multitude and prophecy
Iraq : delirium of war, delusions of peace
Diplomatic intrigues and political truths
Repudiations of the UN left and right
The Hobbesian nightmare : occupied Iraq
The ordeal of universalism
Postnational cosmopolitanism versus liberal nationalism?
Habermas's Agon with Schmitt
Europe, or, the empire of rights
Global neoliberal religious conservatism?
Conclusion: Prelude to the unknown
Liberty without democracy versus democracy without liberty?
Democratic striving and sectarian mobilization
