Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Claude Lefort, A Close Reader: Intellectual Influences and Dialogues; 1 Claude Lefort: A Political Biography; 2 Lefort as Phenomenologist of the Political; 3 Lefort and Machiavelli; 4 Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division; 5 Claude Lefort as Reader of Leo Strauss; Part II: Interpreting the Political: Events and Political Thought; 6 Claude Lefort, the Practice and Thought of Disincorporation; 7 The Style Claude Lefort; 8 Lefort, the Philosopher of 1989.
9 Rethinking the Politics of Human Rights and Democracy with and beyond Lefort10 Lefort and Tocqueville on the Possibility of Democratic Despotism; Part III: Symbolic Mutations: Lefort's Influence in Contemporary Democratic Theory; 11 Thinking Democracy beyond Regimes: Untangling Political Analysis from the Nation-State; 12 Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension; 13 Democracy beyond the Political: Reconsidering the Social; 14 Lefort and the Fate of Radical Democracy; 15 The Advent of the Aesthetico-Political; Index.