Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Modern Destinations
7. 1. Political Theology and Liberal Culture: Strauss, Schmitt, Spinoza, and Arendt 23
8. 2. The Tragicity of the Political: A Note on Carlo Galli’s Reading of Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba 48
9. 3. Hamlet: Representation and the Concrete 60
10. 4. Blumenberg and Schmitt on the Rhetoric of Political Theology 84
11. 5. Political Theologies of the Corpus Mysticum: Schmitt, Kantorowicz, and de Lubac 102
12. 6. Dead Neighbor Archives: Jews, Muslims, and the Enemy’s Two Bodies 124
13. 7. Novus Ordo Saeclorum: Hannah Arendt on Revolutionary Spirit 143
14. 8. Force and Justice: Auerbach’s Pascal 159
15. Part Two. Scenes of Early Modernity
16. 9. The Instance of the Sovereign in the Unconscious: The Primal Scenes of Political Theology 183
17. 10. Pauline Edifications: Staging the Sovereign Softscape in Renaissance England 212
18. 11. Striking the French Match: Jean Bodin, Queen Elizabeth, and the Occultation of Sovereign Marriage 240
19. 12. The Death of Christ in and as Secular Law 264
20. 13. Samson Uncircumcised 282
21. Postscript: The Idea of “New Enlightenment” [Nouvelles Lumières] and the Contradictions of Universalism 299
22. List of Contributors 307
23. Index 309