Sovereignty and Event: The Political in John D. Caputo’s Radical Theology

Cover
Title
Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction
	A. Protests, Masters, and Events
		I. Sovereignty
		II. The Event
	B. Notes on Methodology
	C. Outline of Chapters
Chapter 1: Carl Schmitt, Sovereignty, and Democracy
	A. Introduction
	B. The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
		I. Three Examples in Democracy’s Crisis
		II. The Postdemocratic Condition
	C. Schmitt’s Political Theology
		I. The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations
		II. The Friend-Enemy Distinction
		III. Carl Schmitt’s Concept of Sovereignty
		IV. Political Theology
	D. Schmitt’s Eschatology
		I. Schmitt’s Concept(s) of History
		II. The Katechon
	E. Radical Hermeneutics of Sovereignty?
Chapter 2: Overcoming Metaphysics
	A. Introduction
	B. Heidegger’s Critique of Scholasticism according to Caputo
		I. Metaphysics as the History of Being
		II. Identity and Difference
		III. Language
		IV. The ‘Ereignis’ in Time and Being
	C. The Mystical Element in Thomas Aquinas
		I. The Early Greeks: Anaximander
		II. Heraclitus and Parmenides
		III. Re-reading the Metaphysics of esse
	D. Heidegger against Heidegger
		I. The ‘upon-which’ in Being and Time
		II. Cold Hermeneutics
		III. Demythologized Heidegger and the turn to Derrida
Chapter 3: The Il/logic of the sans
	A. Introduction
	B. Postmodernism, Derrida, and Différance
		I. Postmodernism
		II. Jacques Derrida
		III. Différance
	C. Ethics sans Ethics
		I. Against Ethics
		II. Heteromorphism vs Heteronomism
		III. Anthropologia Negativa
	D. Religion sans Religion
		I. The Apophatic
		II. Translatability
Chapter 4: From Radical Religion to Radical Theology
	A. Introduction
	B. The Messianic
	C. The Gift of Apocalypse
		I. Apocalypse without Apocalypse
		II. The Gift of Givenness
		III. The Gift without Givenness
		IV. Derrida’s Religion
	D. Radical Theology
		I. The Quasi-Structure of ‘Name-Event’
		II. The Death of God, Theology, and Justice
		III. God without Sovereignty
Chapter 5: The Event of Sovereignty
	A. Introduction
	B. Sovereignty without Sovereignty
		I. The Friend-Enemy Deconstruction
		II. Between Law and Justice
		III. Sovereignty, Autoimmunity, and the Democracy to Come
	C. Theological Materialisms: Badiou, Agamben, Žižek
		I. Alain Badiou
		II. Giorgio Agamben
		III. Slavoj Žižek
	D. The Theo-poetics of Radical Political Theology
		I. The ‘Poetics’ of Theo-poetics
		II. The ‘Theos’ of Theo-poetics
		III. The Three Pills of Theo-poetics
		IV. Avoiding the Third-Way of Theo-poetics?
	E. A Conclusion: ‘The King is Dead – Long Live the King!’
Postscript
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index