| Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction: The Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The Threat of Interests to the General Will: Rousseau's Critique of Particularism | 33 |
| Ch. 3 | The Hegelian State: Mediating Away the Political | 70 |
| Ch. 4 | The Origins of Marx's Hostility to Politics: The Devaluation of Rights and Justice | 104 |
| Ch. 5 | Lenin (and Marx) on the Sciences of Consciousness and Production: The Abolition of Political Judgment | 146 |
| Ch. 6 | Hannah Arendt's Politics of "Action": The Elusive Search for Political Substance | 189 |
| Ch. 7 | Conclusion: Redressing the Radical Tradition's Antipolitical Legacy - Toward a Radical Democratic Pluralist Politics | 217 |
| Notes | 251 |
| Bibliography | 311 |
| Index | 325 |