Introduction: Between deconstruction and rational reconstruction --
Philosophy and literature. Leveling the genre distinction between philosophy and literature / Juฬrgen Habermas --
Is there a philosophical language? / Jacques Derrida --
Habermas, Derrida and the functions of philosophy / Richard Rorty --
Ethics and politics. Allegory of modernity/postmodernity : Habermas and Derrida / Richard J. Bernstein --
Frankfurt impromptu --
remarks on Derrida and Habermas / Simon Critchley --
Performative powerlessness --
a response to Simon Critchley / Jacques Derrida --
How to respond to the ethical question / Juฬrgen Habermas --
Democracy and difference : reflections on the metapolitics of Lyotard and Derrida / Seyla Benhabib --
Identity/difference : rights, tolerance and political space. Dead rights, live futures : on Habermas's attempt to reconcile constitutionalism and democracy / Bonnie Honig --
'Bizarre, even opaque practice' : Habermas on constitutionalism and democracy / Lasse Thomassen --
Religious tolerance --
the pacemaker for cultural rights / Juฬrgen Habermas --
Hostipitality / Jacques Derrida --
Between deliberation and deconstruction : the condition of post national democracy / Martin Morris --
Beyond the nation --
state : Europe, cosmopolitanism and international law introduction. For a justice to come : an interview with Jacques Derrida / Jacques Derrida, Lieven De Canter --
February 15, or what binds Europeans together : a plea for a common foreign policy, beginning in the core of Europe / Juฬrgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida --
Between hope and terror : Habermas and Derrida plead for the im/possible / Martin Beack Matusฬtiฬk --
Afterwords. Honesty of thought / Jacques Derrida --
Last farewell : Derrida's enlightening impact / Juฬrgen Habermas.