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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- pheng cheah and suzanne guerlac Introduction: Derrida and the Time of the Political -- part I. Openings -- Jacques Derrida: Co-Responding Voix You -- part II. The à-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology -- Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser -- The Untimely Secret of Democracy -- Sovereign Stupidity and Autoimmunity -- Sovereign Hesitations -- part III. Responsibilities within and without Europe -- European Memories: Jan Pato˘cka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility -- ''Call me Ishmael'' -- Algeria as an Archive -- Fine Risks, or, The Spirit of a Pacifism and Its Destiny -- part IV. Between Ethics and Politics -- The Aporia of Pure Giving and the Aim of Reciprocity: On Derrida's Given Time -- Pseudology: Derrida on Arendt and Lying in Politics -- The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricoeur) -- Should Democracy Come? Ethics and Politics in Derrida -- part v. Afterword -- Finishing, Starting -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Toleration has a rich tradition in Western political philosophy. It is, after all, one of the defining topics of political philosophy-historically pivotal in the development of modern liberalism, prominent in the writings of such canonical figures as John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and central to our understanding of the idea of a society in which individuals have the right to live their own lives by their own values, left alone by the state so long as they respect the similar interests of others. Toleration and Its Limits, the latest addition to the NOMOS series, explores the philosophical nuances of the concept of toleration and its scope in contemporary liberal democratic societies. Editors Melissa S. Williams and Jeremy Waldron carefully compiled essays that address the tradition's key historical figures; its role in the development and evolution of Western political theory; its relation to morality, liberalism, and identity; and its limits and dangers. Contributors: Lawrence A. Alexander, Kathryn Abrams, Wendy Brown, Ingrid Creppell, Noah Feldman, Rainer Forst, David Heyd, Glyn Morgan, Glen Newey, Michael A. Rosenthal, Andrew Sabl, Steven D. Smith, and Alex Tuckness

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies -- Tocqueville's Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America -- Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies -- Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne's The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border -- Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship -- Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation -- The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism -- The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush -- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation -- Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science -- A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture -- From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism -- Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency -- Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices -- Moralism as Antipolitics -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index

Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss—of warfare, disease, and political strife—this eloquent book opens a new view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains." Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors--political theorists, film and literary critics, museum curators, feminists, psychoanalysts, and AIDS activists--expose the humane and productive possibilities in the workings of witness, memory, and melancholy.Among the sites of loss the authors revisit are slavery, apartheid, genocide, war, diaspora, migration, suicide, and disease. Their subjects range from the Irish Famine and the Ottoman slaughter of Armenians to the aftermath of the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, problems of partial immigration and assimilation, AIDS, and the re-envisioning of leftist movements. In particular, Loss reveals how melancholia can lend meaning and force to notions of activism, ethics, and identity