Introduction : causa locuta, Roma finita
The state of things: Happiness and torture in the atonal world ; The family myth of ideology ; Radical intellectuals, or, Why Heidegger took the right step (albeit in the wrong direction) in 1933
Lessons from the past: Revolutionary terror from Robespierre to Mao ; Stalinism revisited, or, How Stalin saved the humanity of man ; Why populism is (sometimes) good enough in practice, but not in theory
What is to be done?: The crisis of determinate negation
Alain Badiou, or, The violence of subtraction