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The Frankfurt school revisited -- Between Proust and the Zohar : Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project -- The Adorno centennial : the apotheosis of negative dialectics -- What is Heideggerian Marxism? -- Critical reflections on Marcuse's theory of revolution -- The lion in winter : Leo Lowenthal and the integrity of the intellectual -- Levinas and Heidegger : the anxiety of influence -- Karl Jaspers : the paradoxes of Mandarin Humanism -- Exiting revolution -- What we can learn from the revolutions of 1989 -- From the "death of man" to human rights : the paradigm change in French intellectual life, 1968-86 -- The republican revival : reflections on French singularity -- Postscript : hexagon fever -- What is global democracy? -- Religion and public reason : a contemporary debate -- The disoriented left : a critique of left Schmittianism -- Kant at ground zero : philosophers respond to September 11.