The Promise of Democracy -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction:The Promise of Democracy -- 2. Hegel For Our Time: Negativity and Democratic Ethos -- 3. Democratic Action and Experience: Dewey's "Holistic" Pragmatism -- 4. Agency and Letting-Be: Heidegger on Primordial Praxis -- 5. Action in the Public Realm: Arendt Between Past and Future -- 6.Postmodernism and Radical Democracy: Laclau and Mouffeon "Hegemony" -- 7. Jacques Derrida's Legacy: Democracy to Come -- 8. Who Are We Now?For an "Other" Humanism -- 9. Religion, Politics, and Islam: Toward Multiple Modes of Democracy -- 10. Beyond Minimal Democracy: Voices from East and West -- Appendix A. Democracy Without Banisters: Reading Claude Lefort -- Appendix B. The Return of the Political: On Chantal Mouffe -- Appendix C. Exiting Liberal Democracy?Bell and Confucian Thought -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.