The Political Ontology of Giorgio Agamben

Introduction: The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Life and Power

Chapter 1 Paradigms, Signatures, and Philosophical Archaeology

- The Idea of the Arche: The Moment of Arising
- On Paradigms: Between Singularity and Exemplarity
- On Signatures
- Philosophical Archaeology and Deconstruction

Chapter 2 Language and Being
-On the Linguistic- Metaphysical Machine in Agamben's Thought
- The Isolation of the Improper: A Critique of Signification
- The Common and the Proper: How do Signatures Work?

Chapter 3 The Paradox of Sovereignty: Bare life and its Paradigms
- The Paradox of Sovereignty: Between Benjamin and Schmitt
- Bare Life and its Paradigms: On the Figure of Homo Sacer
-The Homo Sacer Project as Philosophical Archaeology

Chapter 4 The Signature of Secularisation: Economic Theology, Government and Bare Life
- An Archaeology of Economic Theology: Oikonomia and the Fracture Between God's Being and His Action
- The Providential Machine: On the Collateral Effect as an Act of Government
- An Archaeology of Glory and the Production of Bare Life
- The Production of Bare Life and the Governmental Machine

Chapter 5 Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Sovereignty: The Lessons of The Kingdom and the Glory
- Agamben and Foucault: Two Genealogies of Governmentality
- Neoliberalism: Rearticulating Sovereignty and Governance
-The production of bare Life and Neoliberalism

Chapter 6 The signature of Life, Biopolitics, and Inoperativity
- Foucault's Notion of Life and the Enigma of Biopolitics
- The Signature of Life and the Biopolitical Machine
-Biopolitics and Philosophical Archaeology

Conclusion: The Politics of Inoperativity: Use, Modal Ontology and Destituent Power
-Profanation, Inoperativity and Deactivation
-The Use of Bodies: towards a theory of Use and a Modal Ontology
-Destituent Power and Resistance

Index