邦訳：2011年・以文社New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2011. Giorgio Agamben traces the history of constitutions and their coexistence with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts current democratic practice with democratic communism. Jean-Luc Nacy measures the difference between democracy as a form of rule and as a human end, while Jacques Rancière highlights its egalitarian nature. Slavoj Zizek complicates the distinction between desiring to own the state and hoping to do without it.