A collection of essays from a left-Hegelian perspective which I originally picked up after reading Derrida's "On Touching." Very wordy and sometimes difficult to parse, but containing plenty of moments of profundity and interest. I particularly enjoyed the essay on melenge and melee, expanding on the notion of being as singular plural into a an intermixture without fusion. Lots of delightful quotes about this too, but here is one of my favourites:
"Nothing exists that is "pure," that does not come into contact with the other, not because it has to border on something, as if this were a simple accidental condition, but because touch alone exposes the limits at which identities or ipseities can distinguish themselves.... it is the mêlée of Hermes, a mêlée of messages and paths, bifurcations, substitutions, concurrences of codes, configurations of space, frontiers made to be passed through, so that there can be passages, but ones that are shared—because there is never any identity that is not shared: that is, divided, mixed up, distinguished, entrenched, common, substitutable, insubstitutable, withdrawn, exposed."
The reflections on general current events (ie: war and globalisation) felt a bit more dated and better done by other theorists, but the titular essay was compelling enough to make up for this.