The democratic Narcissus: the 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 democratic polity / 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 J. 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.