*** Part I: On the Incoherence Of the Notion of the “Western Tradition”

**** Parenthetical Note: On the Slipperiness of the Western Eye

**** World-Systems Reconfigured

*** Part II: Democracy Was Not Invented

*** Part III: On the Emergence of the “Democratic Ideal”

*** Part IV: Recuperation

**** The “Influence Debate”

**** Traditions as Acts of Endless Refoundation

*** Part V: The Crisis of the State

**** The Impossible Marriage

*** Bibliography