Introduction : fault lines / Reginald Lilly -- In search of a civic union : the political theme of European democracy and its primordial foundation in Greek philosophy / Manfred Riedel -- The Greek polis and the creation of democracy / Cornelius Castoriadis -- The politics of the chora / John Sallis -- Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom on the path to democracy / Christian Meier -- The modern dilemma of political theory / Rüdiger Bubner -- Paradigm evolution in political philosophy : Aristotle and Hobbes / Manfred Riedel -- Civil prudence in Machiavelli : toward the paradigm transformation in philosophy in the transition to modernity / Klaus Held -- Is the present crisis a specifically modern phenomenon? / Paul Ricoeur -- Remarks on the history of the concept of crisis / Reinhart Koselleck -- Heritage and revolution / Cornelius Castoriadis -- Jacob Burckhardt and Max Weber : two conceptions of the origin of the modern world / Wolfgang Hardtwig -- Nothing and nothing else / Jean-Luc Marion -- Nothingness and the professional thinker : Arendt versus Heidegger / Jacques Taminiaux -- The passion of facticity : Heidegger and the problem of love / Giorgio Agamben -- A medieval model of subjectivity : toward a rediscovery of fleshliness / Rémi Brague -- "The first times" in Rousseau's Essay on the origin of languages / Victor Gourevitch -- In search of the political object : Stoic and aesthetic political philosophy / Frank Ankersmit -- Death and nothingness in literature / Heinrich Mohr -- Postnormative subjectivity / James Mensch
Notes
Papers originally delivered at the New School for Social Research at the semiannual symposia in honor of Hannah Arendt