Foreword
Étienne Balibar
Introduction

Part I. Time, History, Writing
1. The Margins of History
1.1. World-History: The End of "Outside"
1.2. Temporalization and Anachrony
1.3. The Ambiguous Border: Exception and Liberation
2. Writing, Narrations
2.1. Counter-Histories
2.2. Archives of Silence
2.3. Narratives of the Possible
3. Aporias of Memory
3.1. The Law of the Past: Ruins and Other Remains
3.2. Historical Sublime and Narrative

Part II. Maps, Subjects, Translation

4. Translation and Transition
4.1. Writing Machines
4.2. Global Capital and "Historical Difference"
5. Politics of Translation
5.1. Cultural Identity and Ambivalence
5.2. Language and Minorities
5.3. Logic, Rhetoric, Silence
6. Political Subjects
6.1. Geography of Dominion, Cartographies of Subalternity
6.2. The Political Word
6.3. Difference and Position: Alliances Located
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names

Emanuela Fornari is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre, Italy and has published several books, including Modernity Out of Joint: Global Democracy and Asian Values in Jürgen Habermas and Amartya K. Sen. Iain Halliday is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Catania, Italy. He is the author of Huck Finn in Italian, Pinocchio in English: Theory and Praxis of Literary Translation.