CONTENTS

Preface

1. POLITICAL CATEGORIES

Categorial Reduction; or, Reductio ad Conceptum

The Real Problem of Republicanism

Categories, Not Classifications

Infrapolitics and Intrapolitics

Ordinary Language Politics

A Categorial Politics of Truth

2. THE INITIAL APPROACH: ARISTOTLE

Ousia-Beingness-Presence

Quantity

Space

Relation

Positionality and Correlationality

Quality

3. THE SECOND LOOK: KANT

A Form of Politics

Political Figurations

The Categories “Themselves”

An Excursus on Transtranscendental Reason

“Before” the Categories: Forms of Judgment

“After” the Categories: Schematism

4. THE CATEGORIES “AT WORK”

State

Revolution

Power

Sovereignty

Appendix 1. Aristotle’s Categories—a Political Interpretation

Appendix 2. Kant’s “Transcendental Analytic” (Critique of Pure Reason)—a Political Interpretation

Notes

Bibliography

Index