Peter Hallward is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University. He is the author of four books: Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (2001); Badiou: A Subject to Truth (2003); Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation (2006); Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (2007). He is currently at work on a project tentatively titled The Will of the People, the goal of which is to develop and defend a notion of trans-individual political will, understood as a rational, deliberate, and autonomous capacity for collective self-determination.