“Rupture represents a paradigm-shifting intervention into political philosophy and practical politics. It creates a new map for understanding the emergence of political theories and political acts today. Reading this book allows one to understand that political philosophy must above all root itself in the metaphysical tradition that has largely been abandoned. Though Eisenstein and McGowan are not the inventors of rupture—this honor goes most likely to Hegel—they will be seen as two of its chief proponents, and rupture will become the watchword for contemporary politics.” —Slavoj Žižek