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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Catastrophe and Redemption
Katechon, Antichrist, Messiah
Flowers and Chains
Chapter Outline
1. The Politics of Life
A gamben and Foucault: On Biopolitics, Ancient and Modern
Biopolitics and Sovereignty
Biopolitical Being
The Rights of Bare Life
Hoping Merely Out of Stupidity
2. Politics at the Limits of the Law: On the State of Exception
The State of Exception
Carl Schmitt: The Paradox of Sovereignty
Presupposition and the Problem of Application
The State of “Nature”
Challenging the Normalization of the Exception?
3. If This Is a Man: Life after Auschwitz
The Remnant Shall Be Saved
The Danger
Where Danger Is, Grows the Saving Power Also
4. “I Would Prefer Not To”: Bartleby, Messianism, and the Potentiality of the Law
The Law Is a Dry Canal
Aristotle and the Origins of Sovereignty
Past Contingent
Bartleby as Messiah?
5. A New Use: On the Society of the Spectacle and the Coming Politics
Paying Pilgrimage to the Commodity Fetish
The Eclipse of Use and the “Dialectical Salvation of the Commodity”
A New Use for the Self: The Global Petty Bourgeoisie and the Coming Community
We Are Saved When We No Longer Want to Be
Conclusion: Unemployment and the Ungovernable
Notes
Bibliography
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