Volume 29, Number 6 /December 2001

From the Editor
Stephen K. White
765

ARTICLES
Special Section: Democracy, Law, Founding
Constitutional Democracy:
A Paradoxical Union of Contradictory Principles?
Jürgen Habermas
766
Of Boats and Principles:
Reflections on Habermas's "Constitutional Democracy" 
Alessandro Ferrara
782
Dead Rights, Live Futures:
A Reply to Habermas's "Constitutional Democracy"
Bonnie Honig
792

Special Section: Oakeshott Centenary
Oakeshott's Hobbes and the Fear of Political Rationalism
Ted H. Miller
806
A Preface to an Unpublished MS by Michael Oakeshott on
Hobbes's Leviathan
Patrick Riley
833
Letter on Hobbes
Michael Oakeshott
834
Bad Civil Society
Simone Chambers and Jeffrey Kopstein
837

CRITICAL EXCHANGE
Transcending Violence in Derrida:
A Reply to John McCormick
Ben Corson
866
Justice, Interpretation, and Violence:
A Rejoinder to Corson
John P. McCormick
876

REVIEW ESSAYS
Decapitation, Ghosts, and the Holy Spirit
Connolly, Why I'm Not a Securalist
Zizek, The Fragile Absolute
Jodi Dean
882
Review Essay on Mamdani and Ackerly
Mamdani, Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk
Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Cultures

Ackerly, Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism
Roxanne L. Euben
888

BOOKS IN REVIEW
Gerenscer, The Skeptic's Oakeshott
Peter Digeser
896
Dumm, A Politics of the Ordinary
Jacqueline Stevens
898
Index 902