1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Editor’s Introduction Notes

      5  Note on the French Edition

      6  I Theological-Political Prologue

      7  1. The Adventures of the State and the Task of Christians The Twofold Biblical “Reading” of the State The Twofold History of Power Our Twofold Political Task Notes

      8  2. From Marxism to Contemporary Communism Marxism’s Scope The Petrification of Marxism Notes

      9  3. Socialism Today The Economic Level: Planning The Social and Political Level: Democratic Governance The Cultural Level: Socialist Humanism Notes

      10  II The Paradoxes of the Political

      11  4. Hegel Today The Phenomenology of Spirit, or How to Enter into Hegel’s System Three theses Three questions The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences or Fifteen Years Later Logic The philosophy of nature The philosophy of spirit Questions Fascinations Resistances Notes

      12  5. Morality, Ethics, and Politics [The Capable Human Being] [From the Capable Subject to the Historical Subject] [Politics, the Milieu Where the Ethical Aim is Fulfilled] [The Political Paradox] [Responsibility and Fragility] Notes

      13  6. Responsibility and Fragility Rival Cities Paradoxes of the Political International Society Notes

      14  7. The Paradoxes of Authority [Reciprocity and Dissymmetry] [The Foundation Before the Foundation] [Authority and Mutual Indebtedness]

      15  8. Happiness, Off Site Happiness and What is One’s Own Happiness and Close Relations: Friendship Happiness and the Distant: Justice Notes

      16  III Politics, Economy, and Societies

      17  9. Is Crisis a Phenomenon Specific to Modernity? Some “Regional” Concepts of Crisis Criteria for a “Generalized” Concept of Crisis Criteria for a “Modern” Concept of Crisis? Notes

      18  10. Money: From One Suspicion to the Next The Moral Level The Economic Level The Political Level Notes

      19  11. The Erosion of Tolerance and the Resistance of the Intolerable

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