Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. The Challenge of a Political Somatics 1
5. 1. Thinking about the Body Affect and Habit in the Ethics of Augustine, Nietzsche, and Derrida 22
6. 2. Somnambulist Nation Habit in Hegel's Political Philosophy 62
7. 3. Decision, Myth, and Intensity Carl Schmitt’s Affective Nationalism 97
8. 4. Walter Benjamin Toward a Political Somatics 135
9. Conclusion. The Dilemma of Somatic Politics 168
10. Bibliography 175
11. Index 183