CONTENTS:
Introduction: Religion, violence, and the West / John Hymers
Sovereignty, the nation state, and Islam / Gerrit Steunebrink
The violence of God and the belligerence of human beings: A double challenge for theology / Fred van Iersel
Antigone: Mimetic violence, tragedy, and ethics / Geert Van Coillie
5 Worlds of difference: An ethical analysis in the field of deafness / Marcel Broesterhuizen

Introduction: A new century for Hannah Arendt? / Annelies Degryse
O Reluctant democratic egalitarianism: Hannah Arendt's idea of a revolutionary foundation of the modern nation state and international law / Hauke Brunkhorst
O Against violence, but not at any price: Hannah Arendt's concept of power / Remi Peeters
5 Cosmopolitan plurality in Arendt's political philosophy / Kristian Klockars
5 Towards an Arendtian politics of in/visibility: On stateless refugees and undocumented aliens / Marieke Borren
The Sovereign and the Social: Arendt's Understanding of Hobbes / Annelies Degryse
Creating citizens in the classroom: Hannah Arendt's political critique of education / Anya Topolski

Introduction: The guises of reciprocity / John Hymers
A reciprocal asymmetry? Levinas's ethics reconsidered / Tomáš Tatranský
Aristotle on habituation: The key to unlocking the Nicomachean Ethics / Nathan Bowditch
Reflexive modernization and the end of the nation state: On the eclipse of the political in Ulrich Beck's cosmo politanism / Antoon Braeckman
Impossible forgiveness / Paul van Tongeren
Forgiveness and reconciliation in transitional justice practices / Neelke Doorn
Forgiveness and reconciliation in restorative justice conferences / Bas van Stokkom

Introduction: The Coming of age of global democracy? / Ronald Tinnevelt & Raf Geenens
Which world order: Cosmopolitan or multipolar? / Chantal Mouffe
Two paths to global democracy / John S. Dryzek.
Globalization and developmental democracy / Frank Cunningham
In place of 'global democracy' / Michael Saward
Ten normative theses on the European Union / Jean-Marc Ferry