ju lian b o urg is Associate Professor of History at Boston College where he teaches European Intellectual History. He is the author of From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007), translator of Claude Lefort, Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy (2007), and editor of After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2004). He is currently writing a book on the history of the relationship between terror and democracy since the eighteenth century.