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Preface: the extraordinary and political theory; Part I. CharismaticPolitics and the Symbolic Foundations of Power: Max Weber: 1. RevisitingWeber's concept of the political; 2. Charismatic politics; 3. Disavowingcharismatic politics; Part II. The Exception and Constitutional Politics:Carl Schmitt: 4. The popular constituent sovereign and the 'pure' theory ofdemocratic legitimacy; 5. Toward a theory of democratic constitutionalism; 6.The extra-institutional sovereign; Part III. Taming the Extraordinary: HannahArendt: 7. Extraordinary beginnings I: Arendt's critique of Schmitt; 8.Extraordinary beginnings II: Arendt's response to Schmitt; 9. The republic ofcouncils: beyond democracy and liberalism?; Conclusion: a democratic theoryof the extraordinary; Bibliography.