Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication ii
3. Contents v
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. Introduction: Rethinking Glorious Immortality 1
7. Part One
8. 1 The Production of Superfluousness, Radical Evil and the Death of Immortality 21
9. 2 The Superfluousness of Factual Truth and the Problem of Historical Immortality 57
10. 3 The Vita Activa: Earthly Immortality in an Age of Superfluousness 88
11. Intermezzo: Arendt’s Disavowal of Economic Superfluousness 129
12. Part Two
13. 4 Revolutionary Immortality: Sacralised Violence, Secularisation and Political Glory 153
14. 5 Immortal Affects: The Pathos of Earthly Endurance 194
15. Conclusion: Politics without Glory and Potential Earthly Immortality 222
16. Bibliography 233
17. Index 243