Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- pt. I Engaging with the Left -- 2. "These Petrified Relations Must Be Forced to Dance": An Interview with Dick Howard -- 3. The New Left and the Search for the Political -- 4. The Anti-Totalitarian Left Between Morality and Politics -- 5. Toward a Democratic Manifesto -- pt. II Engaging with Predecessors -- 6. Philosophy by Other Means. The Foundations of Sociology -- 7. Andre Gorz and the Philosophical Foundation of the Political -- 8. Citizen Habermas -- 9. Keeping the Republic: Reading Arendt's on Revolution After the Fall of the Berlin Wall -- pt. III Engaging with Philosophy -- 10. The Actuality of the History of Political Thought -- 11. The Paradoxical Success of an Antipolitical Philosophy -- 12. Claude Lefort: Elements for a Political Biography -- 13. The Necessity of Politics -- pt. IV Engaging with Contemporary Ideology -- 14. What Is a Revolution? Reflections on the Significance of 1989/90 -- 15. The Great War and the Origins of Contemporary Ideology -- 16. From Anti-Communism to Anti-Totalitarianism -- 17. What's New After September 11?.