Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: After the Controversy; Overture: Citizen Subject. Response to Jean-Luc Nancy's Question "Who Comes After the Subject?"; Annex: Subjectus/subjectum; PartssI. "Our True Self Is Not Entirely Within Us"; 1. "Ego sum, ego existo": Descartes on the Verge of Heresy; 2. "My Self," "My Own": Variations on Locke; 3. Aimances in Rousseau: Julie or The New Heloise as Treatise on the Passions; 4. From Sense Certainty to the Law of Genre: Hegel, Benveniste, Derrida; Part II. Being(s) in Common.

5. Ich, das Wir, und Wir, das Ich ist: Spirit's Dictum6. The Messianic Moment in Marx; 7. Zur Sache Selbst: The Common and the Universal in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; 8. Men, Armies, Peoples: Tolstoy and the Subject of War; 9. The Social Contract Among Commodities: Marx and the Subject of Exchange; Part III. The Right to Transgression; 10. Judging Self and Others: On the Political Theory of Reflexive Individualism; 11. Private Crime, Public Madness; 12. The Invention of the Superego: Freud and Kelsen, 1922; 13. Blanchot's Insubordination: On the Writing of the Manifesto of the 121.

Part IV. The Ill-Being of the Subject14. Bourgeois Universality and Anthropological Differences; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z.