Foreword Étienne Balibar Introduction Part I. Time, History, Writing 1. The Margins of History 1.1. World-History: The End of “Outside” 1.2. Temporalization and Anachrony 1.3. The Ambiguous Border: Exception and Liberation 2. Writing, Narrations 2.1. Counter-Histories 2.2. Archives of Silence 2.3. Narratives of the Possible 3. Aporias of Memory 3.1. The Law of the Past: Ruins and Other Remains 3.2. Historical Sublime and Narrative Part II. Maps, Subjects, Translation 4. Translation and Transition 4.1. Writing Machines 4.2. Global Capital and “Historical Difference” 5. Politics of Translation 5.1. Cultural Identity and Ambivalence 5.2. Language and Minorities 5.3. Logic, Rhetoric, Silence 6. Political Subjects 6.1. Geography of Dominion, Cartographies of Subalternity 6.2. The Political Word 6.3. Difference and Position: Alliances Located Notes Bibliography Index of Names

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