Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents vii
3. 1. The Principle of Modernity 1
4. 2. A History of Religion 33
5. 3. Artificial Populations 56
6. 4. The Collective 99
7. 5. Images of Truth from Anselm to Badiou 141
8. 6. The Radical Enlightenment of Spinoza and Kant 168
9. 7. Modernity as Ground Zero 211
10. 8. Of Gods, Laws, Rabbis, and Ends 243
11. Acknowledgments 267
12. Notes 269
13. Index 293