contents -- editors' note to the french edition -- translator's postscriptum -- Part I Itinerary -- The Project of Autonomy Is Not a Utopia -- Why I Am No Longer a Marxist -- Imaginary Significations -- Response to Richard Rorty -- On Wars in Europe -- Part II Interventions -- On the Possibility of Creating a New Form of Society -- What Political Parties Cannot Do -- Present Issues for Democracy -- These Are Bad Times -- Do Vanguards Exist? -- What Revolution Is -- Neither a Historical Necessity nor Simply an ''Ethical'' Exigency: A Political and Human Exigency -- When the East Swings to the West -- The Market, Capitalism, and Democracy -- ''Democracy'' without Citizens' Participation -- The Gulf War: Setting Things Straight -- Gorbachev: Neither Reform nor Backtracking -- On War, Religion, and Politics -- Communism, Fascism, and Emancipation -- Ecology against the Merchants -- The Revolutionary Potency of Ecology -- A Society Adrift -- On Political Judgment -- Neither Resignation nor Archaism -- A Rising Tide of Significancy? -- A Singular Trajectory -- Chronology and Bio-Bibliography.