Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Introduction: Geometry of Conflict 1
5. Part 1 Symmetrical Conflict – The Military Model
6. 1 Foucault’s Genealogy 13
7. 2 Schmitt: Conflict as Enmity 45
8. 3 Arendt: Competition and Distinction 71
9. Part 2 Asymmetrical Conflict – The Psychic Model
10. 4 Lacanian Suture 99
11. 5 Althusser’s Overdetermination 125
12. 6 Laclau and Mouffe: Antagonism and Equivalence 152
13. Part 3 Machiavellian Ontology
14. 7 Three ‘Ontologically Oriented’ Concepts: Inimicizie, Ordini, Riscontro 179
15. 8 Neither Monistic, nor Dualistic, nor Pluralistic: A Mixed Ontology 215
16. 9 Machiavellian Ontology and Us: Philosophical Lineages of the Twenty-First Century 229
17. Index 235