First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Etienne Balibar, James Swenson

Preface, Part One: Dilemmas of Classical Politics: Insurrection vs Constitution, 1. Spinoza, the Anti-Orwell: The Fear of the Masses, 2. "Rights of Man" and "Rights of the Citizen": The Modern Dialectic of Equality and Freedom, 3. Fichte and the Internal Border: On Addresses to the German Nation, Part Two: Antinomies of Marxian Politics: Materialism, History, and Teleology, 4. The Vacillation of Ideology in Marxism, 5. In Search of the Proletariat: The Notion of Class Politics in Marx, 6. Politics and Truth: The Vacillation of Ideology, II, Part Three: Frontiers of Contemporary Politics: Questioning the Universal, 7. Fascism, Psychoanalysis, Freudo-Marxism, 8. Racism as Universalism, 9. What Is a Politics of the Rights of Man?, Notes, Index, Acknowledgments