Law and agonistic politics / edited by Andrew Schaap.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : law and agonistic politics / Andrew Schaap -- The democratic agonism of the ancients compared to that of the (post)moderns / Andreas Kalyvas -- Democratic agon: striving for distinction or struggle against domination and injustice? / Jean-Philippe-Deranty and Emmanuel Renault -- The opening : alegality and political agonism / Hans Lindahl -- The expressive agon : on political agency in a constitutional democracy / David Owen -- Staging dissensus: Frederick Douglass and 'we the people' / Jason Frank -- Polemos and agon / Alex Thomson -- Questioning the law? on heteronomy in public autonomy / Bert van Roermund -- Agonism, antagonism and the necessity of care / Keith Breen -- The stranger in synagonistic politics / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner -- Passionate subjectivity, contestation and acknowledgement : rereading Austin and Cavell / Aletta Norval -- On the rationality of disagreement and feeling : brethren, bombers and the construction of the common / Fiona Jenkins -- The complex agon / Adrian Little -- The absurd proposition of aboriginal sovereignty / Andrew Schaap.