CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE FOG OF WAR -- War and Democracy -- Hobbes versus Kant? -- Leviathan -- The Neoconservative Illusion -- The Frailty of Human A.airs -- Crises of the Republic -- The Argument -- SEIZED BY POWER -- Death and the Governor of Texas -- The New American Exceptionalism -- The Cold Warrior Myth -- Kant with Arendt -- Targeting Iraq -- Al Qaeda and Ultimate Ends -- A Grammar of Motives -- THE IMAGINATION OF POWER -- State of Exception -- Arendt versus Agamben -- Schmitt and Hobbes -- Decision and Covenant -- The Ordeal of Universalism -- SEPTEMBER 11 AND FABLES OF THE LEFT -- First Response -- Multilateral Ambivalence -- Terrorism as Symptom -- Chomskian Certitudes -- Hardt and Negri's Empire -- The Multitude and Prophecy -- IRAQ: DELIRIUM OF WAR, DELUSIONS OF PEACE -- The Idealism of Means -- The Idealism of Ends -- Neither Left nor Right -- The Atlantic Misalliance -- Diplomatic Intrigues and Political Truths -- Repudiations of the UN Left and Right -- The Hobbesian Nightmare: Occupied Iraq -- THE ORDEAL OF UNIVERSALISM -- Democracy and War -- Postnational Cosmopolitanism versus Liberal Nationalism? -- Kant with Hobbes -- Habermas's Agon with Schmitt -- Hobbes with Kant -- Europe, or, the Empire of Rights -- Islam's Geo-Civil War -- Global Neoliberal Religious Conservatism? -- No Exit -- CONCLUSION: PRELUDE TO THE UNKNOWN -- Ideas and Errors -- Arendt with Berlin -- Liberty without Democracy versus Democracy without Liberty? -- Democratic Striving and Sectarian Mobilization -- Untimely Meditation -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.