Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Babylon and the Crisis of Sovereignty 1
5. 1. From Babel to Biopolitics: Josephus, Theodemocracy, and the Regulation of Plea sure 46
6. 2. Bellicose Dreams: Babylon and Exception to Law 86
7. 3. Tolerating Babel: Biopolitics, Film, and Family 118
8. 4. Revenge on Babylon: Literalist Allegory, Scripture, Torture 148
9. 5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Enemy 179
10. 6. Babelian Scripture: A Queerly Sublime Ethics of Reading 213
11. Postlude: Roads to Babel 247
12. Works Cited 255
13. Index 293