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Acknowledgments Bibliographical Note 1. Shapes of Democratic Theory: The Problem of Power I. The Rationalist Approach: Habermas’s Theory of Deliberative Democracy Introduction 2. Habermas’s Original Project: Redemption Through Language 3. Faktizität und Geltung: From Discourse Theory to Democratic Theory 4. Five Problems with Habermas’s Theory of Deliberative Democracy II. The Priority of the Political: Lefort’s Solution to the Problem of Power Introduction 5. Lefort and the Original Division of Society 6. The Political Condition: Lefort’s Hidden Anthropology 7. Democracy and the Political Condition III. Towards Reconstruction Introduction 8. Pitting Lefort Against Habermas 9. Democracy and Political Recognition Bibliography.