Political theory and the displacement of politics

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-264) and index.

1. Negotiating Positions: The Politics of Virtue and Virtu -- 2. Kant and the Concept of Respect for Persons. Beginnings. Respect for the Moral Law. Reverence-Respect for Persons. Teleological Respect for Persons. Liberal Respect for Persons. Setting the Conditions for Moral Improvement. Kant's Virtue Theory of Politics -- 3. Nietzsche and the Recovery of Responsibility. Three Kinds of Recovery. The Genealogical Recovery of Responsibility. The Re-covery of Responsibility: Against Remorse. The Re-covery of Responsibility: Eternal Recurrence. Alternative Responsibilities: The Self as a Work of Art. Nietzsche's Re-covery of Virtue as Virtu. Nietzsche's Reverence for Institutions -- 4. Arendt's Accounts of Action and Authority. Action, Identity, and the Self. Acting through Speech: Promising and Forgiveness. The Postulates of Action. Stabilizing Performatives: Arendt, Austin, and Derrida. Acting through Writing: Founding the New American Republic.

The Undecidability of the American Declaration of Independence. Intervention, Augmentation, and Resistibility: Arendt's Practice of Political Authority. Making Space for Arendt's Virtu Theory of Politics -- 5. Rawls and the Remainders of Politics. Reconciliation or Politicization? The Politics of Originating Positions. The Practice of Punishment. Irresponsible Rogues and Idiosyncratic Misfits. Liberal and Other Alternatives -- 6. Sandel and the Proliferation of Political Subjects. Two Kinds of Dispossession. The Communitarian Subject of Possession. Occasions for Politics. Politics as Friendship. Morally Deep Questions. Morally Deep Answers. The Rawlsian Supplement -- 7. Renegotiating Positions: Beyond the Virtue-Virtu Opposition.