1. See A. Arato and J. L. Cohen (2010) “Banishing the Sovereign?” in S. Benhabib (ed.) Politics in Dark Times, pp. 137–71.
2. C. Lefort (1988) “Revolution within the French Revolution” in Democracy and Political Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) pp. 95, 105.
3. For Lefort’s view of non-totalitarian dictatorships see C. Lefort (2000) “Reflections on the Present” in Writing: The Political Test (Durham: Duke University Press) p. 260.
4. Cited by Lefort in C. Lefort (1988) “From Equality to Freedom. Fragments of an Interpretation of Democracy in America” in Democracy and Political Theory, p. 184.
5. C. Lefort (1976) “The Age of Novelty” Te los 24; in French (1981) “Une autre revolution” in L’invention democratique: les limites de la domination tolitaire (Paris: Fayard).