Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: the Edges as an Internal Periphery -- 1. The Underside of Difference and the Limits of Particularism -- Semiotics and Some Programmatic Consequences of the Culture Wars -- A Post-Modern Society? Vattimo's Wager -- A More Cautious Optimism -- The Underside of Disorientation -- The Underside of Multiplicity -- Universals, the Discourse of Rights and Liberalism -- 2. Populism as a Spectre of Democracy -- Populism and Democracy -- The Gap between Faith and Scepticism and the Elusiveness of Populism -- Spectral Recurrences -- 3. Populism as an Internal Periphery of Democratic Politics -- The Verbal Smoke Surrounding Populism -- Populism as a Mode of Representation -- Populism as a Symptom of Democratic Politics -- Populism as an Underside of Democracy -- 4. Stirred and Shaken. From 'the Art of the Possible' to Emancipatory Politics -- The Realist Coding of the Possible 90 -- The Impossible as Supplement -- Agitation as Unveiling/Translation -- Emancipation, Revolutionizing and the Interstitial Region of Politics -- 5. Talkin' 'bout a Revolution: the End of Mourning -- The Mourning After -- Polemicizing the Limit: how Radical does a Radical Change have to Be? -- The Play between the Promise and the Figure -- Revolutionary Realism as Enthusiasm for the Impossible -- Figures of the Promise and the Iterability of Revolution -- Postcards of a Socialist Imaginary -- Bibliography -- Index.