Says the author: "This is a book on political theory dealing with subjects that continue to be important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The book offers a theoretical interpretation of the connections between the dramatic expressions of terrorism and the political mechanism of legitimacy in current democracies."
- Contents
- Note to the Expanded and Corrected Edition
- Preface to the American Edition
- Postscriptum:
- Introduction
- I. The Omnipresent State
- II. Marginals or the Jezebel Syndrome
- III. Anonymous Mediocrity
- IV. Beeinflussungsapparat
- V. The Minor Philosophers and Their New Revelation
- VI. Postponed Destiny
- VII. The Chariot of the Silent Majority
- VIII. The Balance between Democracy and Marginality
- IX. Through the Looking-Glass
- X. The Symbiotic Structure Simulacrum
- XI. The West: The Garden of Democracy
- XII. Capitalism and Democracy
- XIII. Stalin–666
- XIV. Socialist Accumulation and Repression
- XV. Economy and Politics in Socialism
- XVI. The Extinction of the State Tower
- XVII. The Oligarchy of the Martyrs
- XVIII. The Lunatic Fringe
- XIX. Flitcraft’s Parable or the Adventures of Overdetermination
- XX. The Resurrection of the Corpses
- XXI. By Way of an Index
- XXII. Epilogue: The Imaginary Networks
- A New Chapter: The Imaginary Networks of Political Terror