The Omnibus Homo Sacer.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- I. HOMO SACER: Sovereign Power and Bare Life -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE LOGIC OF SOVEREIGNTY -- 1. The Paradox of Sovereignty -- 2. 'Nomos Basileus' -- 3. Potentiality and Law -- 4. Form of Law -- Threshold -- PART TWO: HOMO SACER -- 1. Homo Sacer -- 2. The Ambivalence of the Sacred -- 3. Sacred Life -- 4. 'Vitae Necisque Potestas' -- 5. Sovereign Body and Sacred Body -- 6. The Ban and the Wolf -- Threshold -- PART THREE: THE CAMP AS BIOPOLITICAL PARADIGM OF THE MODERN -- 1. The Politicization of Life -- 2. Biopolitics and the Rights of Man -- 3. Life That Does Not Deserve to Live -- 4. 'Politics, or Giving Form to the Life of a People' -- 5. VP -- 6. Politicizing Death -- 7. The Camp as the 'Nomos' of the Modern -- Threshold -- Bibliography -- II, 1. STATE OF EXCEPTION -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- 1. The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government -- 2. Force-of-Law -- 3. Iustitium -- 4. Gigantomachy Concerning a Void -- 5. Feast, Mourning, Anomie -- 6. Auctoritas and Potestas -- Bibliography -- II, 2. STASIS: Civil War as a Political Paradigm -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Stasis -- 2. Leviathan and Behemoth -- Bibliography -- II, 3. THE SACRAMENT OF LANGUAGE: An Archaeology of the Oath -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Abbreviations -- The Sacrament of Language -- Bibliography -- II, 4. THE KINGDOM AND THE GLORY: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- 1. The Two Paradigms -- Threshold -- 2. The Mystery of the Economy -- Threshold -- 3. Being and Acting -- Threshold -- 4. The Kingdom and the Government -- Threshold -- 5. The Providential Machine -- Threshold -- 6. Angelology and Bureaucracy -- Threshold -- 7. The Power and the Glory -- Threshold -- 8. The Archaeology of Glory -- Threshold -- Appendix: The Economy of the Moderns.

1. The Law and the Miracle -- 2. The Invisible Hand -- Bibliography -- II, 5. OPUS DEI: An Archaeology of Duty -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- 1. Liturgy and Politics -- Threshold -- 2. From Mystery to Effect -- Threshold -- 3. A Genealogy of Office -- Threshold -- 4. The Two Ontologies -- or, How Duty Entered into Ethics -- Threshold -- Bibliography -- III. REMNANTS OF AUSCHWITZ: The Witness and the Archive -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Witness -- 2. The Muselmann -- 3. Shame, or On the Subject -- 4. The Archive and Testimony -- Bibliography -- IV, 1. THE HIGHEST POVERTY: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Preface -- PART ONE: RULE AND LIFE -- 1. Birth of the Rule -- 2. Rule and Law -- 3. Flight from the World and Constitution -- Threshold -- PART TWO: LITURGY AND RULE -- 1. Regula Vitae -- 2. Orality and Writing -- 3. The Rule as a Liturgical Text -- Threshold -- PART THREE: FORM-OF-LIFE -- 1. The Discovery of Life -- 2. Renouncing Law -- 3. Highest Poverty and Use -- Threshold -- Bibliography -- IV, 2. THE USE OF BODIES -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Prefatory Note -- Prologue -- PART ONE: THE USE OF BODIES -- 1. The Human Being without Work -- 2. Chresis -- 3. Use and Care -- 4. The Use of the World -- 5. Use-of-Oneself -- 6. Habitual Use -- 7. The Animate Instrument and Technology -- 8. The Inappropriable -- Intermezzo I -- PART TWO: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF ONTOLOGY -- 1. Ontological Apparatus -- 2. Theory of Hypostases -- 3. Toward a Modal Ontology -- Intermezzo II -- III. FORM-OF-LIFE -- 1. Life Divided -- 2. A Life Inseparable from Its Form -- 3. Living Contemplation -- 4. Life Is a Form Generated by Living -- 5. Toward an Ontology of Style -- 6. Exile of One Alone with One Alone -- 7. "That's How We Do It" -- 8. Work and Inoperativity -- 9. The Myth of Er.

Epilogue: Toward a Theory of Destituent Potential -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Credits.

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