revolution, 38; Schutzhaft and, 137–47;
992–93, 998
state of exception and, 178–79, 793–94,
Odyssey (Homer), 51, 556, 1258
826; totalitarianism of, 100–101. See also
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 825
concentration camps
office(s): Christ’s vicarious presence in,
necessity (exceptions to formae vita in the
666–72; definitions of, 686–87; effectivename of), 974–1000, 1098–99, 1258–59.
ness and, 650; ethics and, 723, 728–41,
See also contingency; potentiality; use
750–52; formoflife and, 888–89, 893–94;
negation, 53, 72, 114, 858–59
genealogies of, 703–19, 724; liturgy as,
Negri, Antonio, 39, 382
923–24, 954–55; monastic rules and,
Neoplatonism, 511, 621, 697–98, 750, 1079,
905–10, 915–26, 929–34, 957–58, 982–83;
1164, 1173–74, 1183–84, 1221–30. See also
ontologies of, 724; ownership and, 961–74;
Plotinus
priests and, 981–82. See also duty; liturgy;
New Deal, 184
sacraments
Niceron, JeanFrançois, 274–75
oikeiosis, 1073–80
Nicholas III, 975, 987–88, 990
oikonomia, 471; action and, 419–31, 449–53;
NicholsonSmith, Donald, 1022
administration and, 387–88, 393–94, 404–5,
Nicole, Pierre, 628
408–9, 434–35, 471–72, 506; angelology
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 5, 595, 716–17,
and, 502–20; Dasein and, 699–700;
724–27, 1030–31, 1038–39, 1045, 1206, 1208
definitions of, 373, 387–89, 394–99, 403,
Nietzsche (Heidegger), 698
406–9, 415–16, 623–24; democracy and,
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 43, 375, 722–23, 775, 808,
495, 500–501; dispensatio and dispositio and,
827, 1024, 1117, 1129, 1148, 1232
407, 416; eschatology and, 516–20; glory
Nissen, Adolph, 204–8, 222, 225
and, 386, 495–97, 554–57, 560–64, 580,
Noailles, Pierre, 232, 323, 347–48
602, 1266–67; grace and, 613–15; inoper
nomos. See anomie; law, the
ativity and, 588–94; invisible hand and,
nomos basileus, 31–36
623–32; masterslave relation and, 1031–48;
Nomos of the Earth (Schmitt), 454
mystery and, 391–418, 420, 514, 563–64,
nonconsciousness, 1085–86
649–50, 665, 694–95; ordering and, 623–32;
Norbert of Xanten, 961
politics and, 434–37, 619–32; of produc
Norden, Eduard, 524, 548
tion, 695–700; providence and, 472–98,
Norman Anonymous, 497
628; in rhetoric, 389–90, 398; sacred
norms, 174–75, 190–200, 240–41, 748–49,
power and, 502–20, 1092–93; secularism
805–7, 867, 936–46, 971, 1115–16, 1118–19.
and, 630–31; technology and, 600–601;
See also rules and rulefollowing
temporality and, 411–16; theology and,
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rilke),
373–84, 390–416, 425–31, 467–501, 626–32;
801–2
Trinitarian, 369–71, 374, 398–400, 402,
“Notes toward a Work on the Category of
404–7, 410–11, 416–18, 421, 423–24, 473,
Justice” (Benjamin), 1100–1101
489–90, 496–97, 510, 518, 616–17, 665–66,
Notizblöcke (Benjamin), 1100–1101
957–58, 1155–56, 1271
Notstandscommando, 208
oikos: ambivalence of, 255–58, 262, 264; civil
nudity, 831–32, 1243
war and, 256, 258–60; history of, 623–24;
Numa Pompilius, 69, 72
politics and, 355, 1204–5; power arrange
INDEX 1311
ments and, 369–71; slavery and, 1029–30,
1164–68, 1170–74, 1179–83, 1186–87,
1035–37; terrorism and, 264. See also
1189–90, 1229–30, 1237–44, 1262–64; of
families (power in)
the mystery, 682–84; oikonomia and, 418,
Olivi, Peter John, 937, 973, 976, 980, 989,
1271; ontological difference and, 52–53,
993–95, 999–1001
432–66, 744–47, 848–49, 1071–72, 1131–32,
On Certainty (Wittgenstein), 341
1137, 1152–53, 1156–57, 1175–76, 1186–87,
“On Contemplation” (Plotinus), 1221–22
1195–96, 1234–35, 1273; operativity and,
the One, 510, 697, 750–51, 1078–79, 1149–58,
650, 744–46, 750–52; passivity and, 834–
1175
36, 1121; politics and, 1144–48, 1273–74;
120 Days of Sodom (Sade), 111, 896, 1111
potentialityactuality spectrum and, 39–43,
One-Way Street (Benjamin), 832
724–26, 1276–77; sadomasochism and,
On Fate (Plutarch), 480
1123–25; sovereign exception and, 44–53;
“On Happiness” (Plotinus), 1221–24
of style, 1231–39; subjectivity and, 1118–19,
“On Language in General and Human
1132–37, 1141–48; substanceoriented, 695–
Language” (Benjamin), 339
96, 745–46, 1159–61, 1164–65, 1169–70;
On Law and Justice (PseudoArchytas), 226
temporality and, 1141–43; theology and,
“On Obscure Writing” (Levi), 785
698–700, 1159–69, 1171–72, 1175–76; use
On Revolution (Arendt), 37, 168, 253–54
and, 984–1000, 1053–54, 1063–72
“On the Antithetical Meaning of Primal
operativity, 650; ethics and, 725–28, 730–41,
Words” (Abel), 66
748–52; habits and, 1085–86; of the law,
On the Composition of the Angels (Giles of
994–95; liturgy and, 694–95, 954–55;
Viterbo), 1165–66
modality and, 1184; office or duty and,
On the Incomprehensible Nature of God (John
704–19; oikonomia of, 701–2; ontology of,
Chrysostom), 782–83
695–98, 744–46
On the Modes of Life, 1262
Opus Dei, 649–50, 667, 671–72
On the “Prescription” of the Heretics
Opus nonaginta dierum (Ockham), 992–93
(Tertullian), 944
opus operans, 668–74, 687, 694, 702, 981–82,
On the Principle of Individuation (Leibniz),
1096
1170–71
opus operatum, 666–74, 679–80, 687, 694,
On the Significance of Words (Festus), 61
698–700, 715, 720, 955, 981–82, 1096–97
On the Trinity (Augustine), 562
Opus postumum (Kant), 355–56
On the Word (pseudoAristotle), 433
orality, 947–51
ontology, 1173–80; action and, 419–31, 480–82,
order(ing), 10–11, 20, 34–36, 144, 444–68,
498–501, 560–62; apparatus of, 1131–48,
491–97, 503, 566, 600–601, 616, 624–28
1152–53; Aristotilean, 444–47, 724–28, 751,
Organon (Aristotle), 695–96
1084–85, 1131–48, 1151–52, 1155–56, 1159–61,
Origen, 48, 380, 411–12, 421, 440–41, 516,
1163–64, 1173, 1178, 1180, 1185–86, 1206–1
1,
558–60, 562, 597, 665, 688, 751, 908, 1234
1224–25; of art, 685–87; bioontology
“The Original Meaning of the Word Sacer”
and, 1224–26; biopolitics and, 1206–11,
(Fowler), 67
1215; care and, 1059–61; the demand and,
“The Origin and Meaning of the Formula
1180–82; effectiveness and, 650, 688–92,
‘ monou pros monon’” (Peterson), 1240
695–98, 701–2; ethics and, 718–19, 722–49,
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
831–32, 1001, 1100–1101, 1184–85, 1237–39;
(Benjamin), 211, 213–16
the exception and, 1265–66; as first
Origin of the Work of Art (Heidegger). See
philosophy, 1127–28; form of life and,
Ursprung des Kunstwerks (Heidegger)
1001, 1240–44; of governance, 498–501;
Orosius, 381
Heidegger and, 124–25, 698–700, 744–47,
Orthogenic School, 791
1063–72, 1185–87, 1193–94, 1276; hypostasis
Otto, Rudolph, 66, 311
and, 1149–58; inoperativity and, 1267–68;
Otto van Veen, 1023
instrumentality and, 1091–92; language
Overbeck, Franz, 312, 380, 1128
and, 847–50, 1132, 1134–35, 1143–48,
overcoma, 132–36
1177–78, 1180–81, 1215–16, 1266, 1272; the
Overman Act (USA), 183
law and, 44–53, 993–94; modal, 1158–62,
Ovid, 708
1312 INDEX
ownership, 975, 985–1000, 1079–80, 1084–85,
personality, 1085–86
1100–1101, 1111–12, 1276
Pessoa, Fernando, 839–41
Pétain, Philippe, 177
Pachomius, 893, 897–99, 902, 909–11, 913,
Peter Damian, 899, 906
916, 920, 926
Peter of Aragon, 919
Pactum (of Maria Laach), 929–30, 935
Peter of Poitiers, 669–70
Padua, Marsilius of, 6
Peters, Edward, 464
paganism, 677–78, 733–34, 933–34, 957–58
Peterson, Erik, 369–70, 377–86, 433–42,
painting, 686
502–6, 512, 518, 523–30, 545–47, 575, 673,
Palamon, 909–10, 913
956, 1240. See also specific works
Panaetius, 706, 712
Petrarch, 1107
Panégyrique (Debord), 1021–23
Phaedo (Plato), 1241
paradigms, 22–23
Phaedrus (Plato), 1263–64
Paradoxa stoicorum (Cicero), 705–6
Phenomenology of Religion (van der Leeuw),
Parallel Lives (Plutarch), 1235
310
Pascal, Blaise, 420, 609–10, 619, 628
Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel), 21, 1061–62,
Pascoli, Giovanni, 868
1143
passion, 395, 401, 411–14, 427, 532–33, 559–60,
Philebus (Aristotle), 5
631, 665, 670, 681–83, 1023, 1056–62, 1093,
Philippics (Cicero), 202, 204
1114
Philip the Chancellor, 506
The Passion of Michel Foucault (Miller), 1114
Philo, 303–4, 315–18, 326, 338, 380, 394, 434,
passivity, 491, 729, 831–36, 1060, 1121, 1277
479, 599, 629–30, 927–29
Pastor Fido (Guarini), 273
Philoponus, 1132
Paul (Saint): angelology and, 515, 521–22; body
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein),
politic metaphor and, 286–87; charisma
1245–48
and, 239; energeia and, 689; Epistle to the
Philosophy in the Boudoir (Sade), 111, 1111
Hebrews of, 589; Epistle to the Romans
Philosophy of Relation (Schelling), 43
of, 49; First Letter to the Corinthians
Philosophy of Revelation (Schelling), 376
of, 521–22, 530, 557, 597, 837–38, 1079,
phonē, 10
1275–76; glory and, 555, 557, 570–71,
Physics (Aristotle), 1091
596–97; Jewish law and, 227, 329–30; on
Physiocrats, 628–30
language, 344–45; Letter to the Hebrews
physis, 26, 32–35, 89–92, 222, 388, 425, 444,
and, 657–58, 660, 664–66, 703–4, 928–29;
490, 627–28, 1037, 1045–47, 1098, 1222
Letter to the Romans of, 870; liturgy and,
Picard, Charles, 593
653–57; messianism and, 221, 869–70,
Pindar, 29–30, 32, 587
1275–76; oikonomia and, 377, 391–94, 396,
Pippin (King), 458
402, 407, 416–18, 420, 514, 649–50, 665;
pistis, 319–21, 324–25, 350, 925
rules and, 942–43, 952–56; Second Letter
Pius, Antonius, 81
to the Corinthians of, 556, 558–59; Second
Pius XI, 546
Letter to the Thessalonians of, 285, 288–89
Pius XII, 386, 676, 824
Peckham, John, 976
Plato, 254–57, 259, 306, 322–23, 379, 391, 488,
Pelagius, 688–89, 1084–85
1183, 1222, 1252–64, 1272–73, 1279. See also
people ( Volk), 145–47, 276–77, 529–30,
specific works
545–46, 602–3, 817–18
Plaumann, Gerhard, 206–7
Pépin, Jean, 691
Plautus, 707
performativity (of language), 336–37, 342–56,
pleasure, 111–12, 743–44, 833, 1059–62,
535–36, 575–77, 690–91, 745–46, 933–34.
1120–21, 1123–24
See also acclamation; glory; liturgy; oaths
plenitudo potestatis, 460–65
Peri pronoias (Chrysippus), 474
Plescia, 322
Peri tou kathēkontos (Panaetius), 706
Pliny, 90, 318–19, 850, 1107
perjury, 305–6, 310, 314, 323, 327–33, 345
Plotinus, 422, 441, 697–98, 750, 1078–79,
permission, 975–84
1151–55, 1173–74, 1182, 1221–27, 1240–41
Perrot, JeanClaude, 628
Plowden, 86
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Plutarch, 149, 260, 323, 480–82, 486, 1235
theory and, 22–24; sexuality and, 99–101,
poetry, 585–88, 600, 785–86, 801–2, 836–37,
111–12; slavery and, 387–88, 1029–48; social
839–41, 868–69, 1105–7, 1116
contract theory and, 148–49; sovereign
poiesis, 686–87, 716, 1037–38, 1043–48,
ban and, 18–28, 45–53; the spectacle and,
1090–91, 1251
36–37, 604–5; state of exception and,
Poincaré, Raymond, 176–77
13–14, 37, 137–47, 171, 175–84, 193–210,
police (science of), 8, 79, 121, 816
240–42; state of nature and, 33, 89–93, 171,
Political Economy (Rousseau), 619–20, 623
281–82; survival and, 864–66; techniques
Political Theology (Schmitt), 54, 167, 193,
of, 8; technology and, 1098–99; theology
195–96, 211–14, 216, 381
and, 70, 282–86, 301–2, 373–84, 431–66,
politics: aesthetics and, 551, 564–65; anarchy
468–98, 531–33, 542–48, 613–15, 1208–9;
and, 194, 226–28, 383, 429, 563, 900,
violence and, 212, 217–21, 1269–70. See also
1273–76; angelology and, 502–20; Aristotle
biopolitics; democracy; forms of life; law,
and, 5, 148–49, 803–4,
1204–5, 1211; bare
the; sovereignty; theology
life and, 7, 9–13, 56–57, 74–77, 84–85, 148,
Politics (Aristotle), 5, 10, 258, 387, 444–45,
241, 264, 1206–7, 1232, 1265–66; body as
653–54, 1029–30, 1032, 1095, 1204–5, 1242
metaphor and, 77–87, 104, 119–20, 122,
Politisches Theologie II (Schmitt), 377
152–53, 273, 277, 286–87, 528–30; bureau
Pomponius, 198
cracy and, 502–20; the celestial city and,
population, 816–17
502–20; city–home distinction and, 6, 74–
Porphyry, 1132, 1151, 1156, 1258–59, 1262
77, 255–60, 262–64, 479, 619–20, 1029–30, positive law, 18–19, 34, 175, 184, 189–91,
1035–37; civil war and, 253–64; contempla
979–80, 993, 1278
tion and, 1221–26, 1242–44; Dasein and,
post festum, 845–47
125–26; of death, 132–36; family sphere
Postigliola, Alberto, 619
and, 74–77, 255–56, 619–20, 623–24,
potentiality: Aristotle’s understanding of, 27,
1204–5; forms of life and, 119–26, 893–911,
40–43, 691–92, 724–29, 1031–33, 1038–40,
1214–15, 1217–18, 1225–26, 1238–39; glory
1082–87, 1269, 1276–77; constituting vs.
and, 600–608; governmentality and, 168,
constituted power and, 39–41; decision
369–71, 374–76; hierarchical power and,
and, 1083–84; the demand and, 1180–81;
502–20, 538–40, 658–62; homo sacer as
destituent, 1268–79; forms of life and,
basic element of, 92–96, 150–54; human
1217–20, 1223–24, 1250–51, 1277–78; habits
itarianism and, 110–12; inoperativity and,
and, 729–30, 1081–87; inoperativity and,
588–94, 599–601; juridicoinstitutional
53, 1274–75, 1277–78; the law and, 36–43,
views of, 8, 167–68; the Kingdom and,
198–99; ownership and, 1084–85; rules
432–66, 468–69; language and, 10, 301–56,
and, 941–46, 957–58; of speech, 857–58,
653 –672, 1245–48, 1272–73; Leviathan
865–66, 868–69; theology and, 464–66;
and, 265, 271–72; liturgy and, 653 –672;
use and, 1081–87, 1112
mechanical, 475–85, 488, 495–97, 499–
potestas, 74–77; auctoritas and, 230–42,
500, 512, 619–20, 629–30, 1244; mythology
369–70, 434, 463, 1266–67, 1278–79;
of, 78–87; nonrelation and, 1240–44;
Christ’s divinity and, 495–97; fides and,
oathgiving and, 301–56; office or duty
320; Leviathan and, 269; ontological
and, 703–19; oikonomia and, 391, 410, 434–
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