Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 Suffering and Social Weightlessness 28
2 The Unbearable Lightness of Theory: Mouffe’s Dissociative Agonism 67
3 Freedom beyond the Subject: Feminism, Agency and Agonism 98
4 All or Nothing: Rancière’s Ruptural Agonism 132
5 Pluralism and Practice: The Existential Agonism of Connolly and Tully 168
Conclusion: Political Theory as Critique: Reconsidering the Negative 207
Notes 220
References 226
Index 241