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<ul style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> <li>Prologue: The Accidental Politician</li> <li>A. Resistance Rising</li> <li>1. From Utopia to Dystopia and Resistance, a Short Run</li> <li>2. Hunger Strikers and Hunger Artists</li> <li>3. Radical Philosophy Encounters Syriza</li> <li>4. A Philosophy of Resistance</li> <li>B. Syriza Agonistes</li> <li>5. A Very European Coup</li> <li>6. Contradiction is the Name of the Governing Left</li> <li>C. Reflections on Life as Politician</li> <li>7. Welcome To The Desert Of Disorderly Order</li> <li>8. Learning from Ideology</li> <li>9. The Curious Incident of the Missing TV Licenses</li> <li>D. The Moral Advantage of the Left</li> <li>10. The Ethos of the Left</li> <li>11. Greeks or Europeans?</li> <li>12. The Euro, the Sacred and the Holy</li> <li>E. Left History</li> <li>13. The Left and the Philosophy Of History</li> <li>14. 1949, 1969, 1989: The Cycles of History</li> <li>F. From Grexit to Brexit</li> <li>15. Putting the Demos On Stage</li> <li>16. Grexit and Brexit, Oxi and Leave</li> <li>17. Brexit and Euroscepticism</li> <li>G. Finis Europae</li> <li>18. Finis Europae?</li> <li>19. The Left and the Future of Europe</li> <li>H. Cities of Refuge</li> <li>20. Europe Between Two Infant Deaths</li> <li>21. Human Rights For Martians</li> <li>Notes</li> </ul>

"What a rare and wonderful book! Douzinas reflects with searing honesty on the challenges facing left parties trying to govern and protect embattled nations in an age of financialization and globalization. Because he is one of the most perspicacious critical legal and political theorists of our time, he has also offered a brilliant set of political theoretical meditations. By turns ironic, tragic, caustic and moving, <i>Syriza in Power</i> is essential reading for serious leftists everywhere."<br /><b> Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley</b> <br /><br /> "While the Syriza government, elected in 2015 in Greece, was teaching the world a lesson of courage and fidelity, Costas Douzinas, its "professor elect", was teaching a lesson of lucidity, intelligence and imagination. Above all, he makes plain that, in the darkest hour, history is not finished, because the resistance is rooted in the life and ideals of the people itself. Whether one entirely agrees or not with Douzinas' "left Euroscepticism that can save Europe", his politics of truth will prove immensely helpful." <br /> <b>Étienne Balibar, Kingston University<br /><br /></b>"Costas Douzinas’ <i>Syriza in Power</i> carries a wondrous resemblance to Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince... Both works scrutinise without moralization the world of politics at a critical historical juncture… As they set out to expose the tensions between the logic of moral rectitude and the demands of public action, they advance positions that are in direct conflict with the dominant doctrines of the time. The insights into the world of politics are invariably delivered with flair and erudition that simultaneously seduce and intimidate."<br /><b>Open Democracy</b>

<b>Costas Douzinas</b> is Professor of Law and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London as well as the Syriza member of the Hellenic parliament for Piraeus.

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