Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Contributors xi
6. ON AGAMBEN
7. The Work of Man 1
8. SOVEREIGHTY
9. Bare Life or Social Indeterminacy? 11
10. The Complexities of Sovereignty 23
11. Boundary Stones: Giorgio Agamben and the Field of Sovereignty 43
12. Whatever Politics 70
13. From Sovereign Ban to Banning Sovereignty 92
14. LIFE
15. Giorgio Agamben: The Discreet Taste of the Dialectic 109
16. Approaching Limit Events: Siting Agamben 126
17. Jamming the Anthropological Machine 163
18. Biopolitics, Liberal Eugenics, and Nihilism 180
19. Agamben and Foucault on Biopower and Biopolitics 203
20. The Ontology and Politics of Exception: Reflections on the Work of Giorgio Agamben 219
21. Selected Bibliography of Giorgio Agamben 243
22. Notes 253
23. Index 281