Introduction -- A Neopragmatist Defense of Democratic Participation -- The Political Implications of Wittgenstein's Skepticism -- Participation and Tacit Knowledge in Plato, Machiavelli, and Hobbes -- The Role of Tacit Knowledge in the Argument of Federalist Number Ten -- Leadership, Knowledge, and Truth in Gramsci's Political Thought -- Nietzsche, Foucault, and the Prospects of Postmodern Political Philosophy -- Maimonides and Lyotard: Convergences between the Premodern and the Postmodern