Introduction / Ernesto Laclau -- 1. Minding the Gap: The Subject of Politics / Ernesto Laclau and Lilian Zac -- 2. Identity and Its Vicissitudes: Hegel's 'Logic of Essence' as a Theory of Ideology / Slavoj Zizek -- 3. Yes Absolutely: Unlike Any Writing Pen / Rodolphe Gasche -- 4. Equality at the Limit of Liberty / Claudia Hilb -- 5. Social Ambiguity and the Crisis of Apartheid / Aletta J. Norval -- 6. 'A Country of Words': Conceiving the Palestinian Nation from the Position of Exile / Glenn Bowman -- 7. Rastafari as Resistance and the Ambiguities of Essentialism in the 'New Social Movements' / Anna Marie Smith -- 8. The Crisis of Identity and the Struggle for New Hegemony in the Former Yugoslavia / Renata Salecl -- 9. The Green Threshold / Zoltan Szankay -- 10. Sign O' Times: Kaffirs and Infidels Fighting the Ninth Crusade / Bobby Sayyid.
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This work brings together trends of current thinking - Lacanian psychoanalysis, deconstruction, neo-Hegelianism and political philosophy - to illuminate the question of identity in the contemporary world. It also examines some of the new political identities which have emerged in recent decades.