Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 "The Problem of My Life and Flesh"

Part I: On Strategically Dysfunctional Essentialism, and Other Problems of the Not Exactly Cosmopolitan Present

Chapter 2 The Agony and Ecstasy of the Particular

Chapter 3 Only the Sign is For Sale

Chapter 4 A Declaration of Independence

Part II: Passionate Lives in Public Service

Chapter 5 Jane Addams: A "Person of Marked Individuality"

Chapter 6 Religion, Love, and Democracy in Laura Bragg’s Boxes

Chapter 7 Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Most "Excellent Pedagogist"

Epilogue

About the Author

University of British Columbia