1043–44
Weston, Jesse, 432
Verschuer, Ottmar von, 119–22, 136
“What Is Authority” (Arendt), 230
Versnel, H. S., 84, 222–23
What Is Metaphysics? (Heidegger), 1175
Vetus Latina, 963–64
What Is Philosophy? (Deleuze), 1085–86
Veyne, Paul, 1114
Wiesel, Elie, 780, 783–84, 820
vicariousness, 83–85, 495–500, 647
WilamowitzMöllendorf, Ulrich von, 32
Vico, Giambattista, 265
Wilda, Wilhelm Eduard, 88–89
Victorinus, Marius, 514–15, 667, 691–92,
will, the: consent for medical procedures and,
696–97, 751, 1227–29, 1231, 1234
129–30; constituting vs. constituted power
Vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua
and, 38–39; effectiveness and, 688–89;
(Rabelais), 894–96
ethics and, 729–30, 734, 737–38, 740–42,
Villey, Michel, 993
746–52; freedom of, 631–32; glory and, 571;
violence, 1269–71; capital punishment and,
God’s, 474–77, 479–80, 493–94, 610–11;
69–70; civil war and, 253–64; constituting
inappropriability and, 998–1000; Kant
vs. constituted power and, 36–43; homo
on, 46; power and, 422; providence and,
sacer and, 61–63, 69–73; justice and,
472–74, 480–82, 610–19; ressentiment and,
29–30, 32–36; the law and, 54–57, 95–96,
808, 827–29; of the sovereign, 25; state of
212, 217–21, 240–42, 347–48; state of
exception and, 169; vows and, 933–34. See
nature and, 33–34, 37, 90–93, 95–96
also being; ethics; life; subject, the
viraj, the, 583–84
William Durand, 649–50, 663–64, 704, 713,
Virgil, 737
716, 888, 904–5
virtual, the, 1087, 1101, 1180–81
William of Auvergne, 566, 904
virtue, 723, 726–41, 901–5, 1032, 1086–87
William of Moerbeke, 485
The Vital Function and Internal History of Life
William of Ockham, 467–68, 976, 978–79,
(Binswanger), 843–45
992–93, 998
Vita nuova (Dante), 839
Williams, Bernard, 285–86
vivigalli, 907
Wilson, Woodrow, 183
Vocabulaire (Benveniste), 311
Wirklichkeit, 683–89, 694–95, 698–700
Vogt, Joseph, 1042
witnessing, 768, 771–87, 792–95, 836–37,
Vogüé, A. de, 667, 916, 948–49
841–42, 857–58, 860–61, 865–66, 1239
von Justi, J. H. G., 120–21
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 341, 343, 934–35,
von Seydel, Max, 438, 459–60
945–46, 1245–48
vow, 888
Wolff, Christian, 474
vows, 919–24, 932–33
wolfman, 88–93
VPs ( Versuchspersonen), 127
Wolman, Gil J., 1022
work (of human beings), 1029–48
Wade, Simeon, 1114
Works and Days (Hesiod), 30
Walde, A., 67
worldhood, 1063–72, 1101–12
Waldoa, 961
World War One. See First World War
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writing, 947–51, 966
1193–94, 1197, 1207–8, 1248, 1267; between
Wundt, Wilhelm Max, 65
immanence and transcendence, 485–89,
Wyckaert, Maurice, 1021
498–501, 560–64, 673–74, 794, 1121–23,
1272–73; between law and life, 52–53, 153,
Xenophon, 387–88
220–21, 227–29, 234, 238, 240–42, 934,
975–84, 1001; between life and politics, 7,
exYugoslavia, 35, 53, 144–45
9, 12, 27–28, 75–77, 100–104, 142; between
life and rules, 910–13, 934, 936, 941–46,
Zachary (Pope), 458
957–58, 968–69; between meanings of
Zeno, 705, 708
oikonomia, 418; between nomos and physis,
Zevi, Sabbatai, 50
26, 32–33; between outside and inside,
Ziebarth, Erich, 327–29
26, 34–36, 108–9, 148, 195–96; between
zoē: bios and, 597, 1206–10, 1215; definition of,
potential and act, 27, 198–99, 213–15;
5–6; forms of life and, 973, 1203, 1221–30;
between private and public, 7, 100–101,
homo sacer and, 150–54; hypostasization of,
151–52, 209, 273, 502–20, 673–74, 1021–22,
1221–26; the Muslim and, 151; oikos and,
1110–12, 1243, 1251; between religious and
258–59; politics and, 5–6, 9–12; rights and,
juridical realms, 63, 540–45; between rules
105–12; theological promises and, 374–76.
and exceptions, 20, 55, 240–42; between
See also bare life; life
sacred and profane, 63, 84–85, 568–70,
zones of indistinction: between being and
574–75; between self and other, 1031–48,
praxis, 650, 701–2, 715–19, 1232–39, 1251;
1050–55; spatiality and, 34–36; between
between cause and effect, 481–82, 499–
states of mourning and exception, 222–29;
500, 612–13, 692–93, 701–2; between death
between subject and object, 1052–55,
and life, 82–87, 152–53, 797–98, 803–4,
1059–60; between the subjective and ob
807–8, 815, 822, 850; between fact and
jective power, 8–9; between violence and
law, 140–47; between human and animal,
law, 55; between virtue and office, 732–33;
88–93, 99, 792–93, 798–800, 803–6, 812–
between war and peace, 253–54; between
13, 815, 841–42, 848, 850, 861–64, 866–67,
zoē and bios, 607–8, 1046–48, 1221–30,
1029–48, 1097–99, 1108–10, 1190–91,
1251–64
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Document Outline
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
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