Law and Agonistic Politics

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Democratic Narcissus: The Agonism of the Ancients Compared to that of the (Post)Moderns -- 2 Democratic Agon: Striving for Distinction or Struggle against Domination and Injustice? -- 3 The Opening: Alegality and Political Agonism -- 4 The Expressive Agon: On Political Agency in a Constitutional Democratic Polity -- 5 Staging Dissensus: Frederick Douglass and 'We, the People' -- 6 Polemos and Agon -- 7 Questioning the Law? On Heteronomy in Public Autonomy -- 8 Agonism, Antagonism and the Necessity of Care -- 9 The Stranger in Synagonistic Politics -- 10 Passionate Subjectivity, Contestation and Acknowledgement: Rereading Austin and Cavell -- 11 On the Rationality of Disagreement and Feeling: Brethren, Bombers and the Construction of the Common -- 12 The Complex Agon -- 13 The Absurd Proposition of Aboriginal Sovereignty

Introduction : law and agonistic politics / Andrew Schaap -- The democratic agonism of the ancients compared to that of the (post)moderns / Andreas Kalyvas -- Democratic agon: striving for distinction or struggle against domination and injustice? / Jean-Philippe-Deranty & Emmanuel Renault -- The opening : alegality and political agonism / Hans Lindahl -- The expressive agon : on political agency in a constitutional democracy / David Owen -- Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and 'we the people' / Jason Frank -- Polemos and agon / Alex Thomson -- Questioning the law? on heteronomy in public autonomy / Bert van Roermund -- Agonism, antagonism and the necessity of care / Keith Breen -- The stranger in synagonistic politics / Nathalie Karagiannis & Peter Wagner -- Passionate subjectivity, contestation and acknowledgement : rereading Austin and Cavell / Aletta Norval -- On the rationality of disagreement and feeling : brethren, bombers and the construction of the common / Fiona Jenkins -- The complex agon / Adrian Little -- The absurd proposition of aboriginal sovereignty / Andrew Schaap