Includes bibliographical references and index.

Themes and dialogues in contemporary French critical theory / Jean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge, John Rundell -- The ethical turn of aesthetics and politics / Jacques Rancière -- Constructions and deconstructions of the universal / Etienne Balibar -- Subjectivity, work, and action / Christophe Dejours -- Recognition today: the theoretical, ethical, and political stakes of the concept / Christian Lazzeri and Alain Caillé -- The work of negativity: a psychoanalytical revision of the theory of recognition / Axel Honneth -- Repressed materiality: retrieving the materialism in Axel Honneth's theory of recognition / Jean-Philippe Deranty -- Discourse ethics and the problem of nature / Stéphane Haber -- Biopolitics and social pathologies / Emmanuel Renault -- Durkheim and the reflexive condition of modernity / John Rundell -- The sacred, social creativity, and the state / Natalie Doyle -- Cosmopolitanism as a matter of domestic policy / Gérard Raulet -- Gender and political representation: the question of parité in France / Yves Sintomer.

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