The Sovereign Human Being: Carl Schmitt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Responsible Decision-Making (T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics)

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	1. Parallel lives
	2. Parallel questions
Part 1 Carl Schmitt’s Sovereign Führer
	1. The exception
	2. The sovereign
	3. The decision
	4. Summary
Part 2 Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Sovereign Superiors
	1. The extraordinary situation
	2. Sovereign superiors
	3. The decision
	4. Summary
Part 3 The sovereign human being
	1. Unexceptional sovereignty
		i. Exception as metaphysical phenomenon
		ii. Exception as event
		iii. The exception’s trivialization of the normal
		iv. Times of exception
		v. The ordinariness of exceptions
	2. The sovereign human being
		i. The alleged lack of sovereign agency
		ii. The alleged incompetence of individuals
	3. The de-cision
		i. Decision as the sovereign act
		ii. Process of decision
		iii. The decision’s normative space
		iv. Decision and responsibility
		v. Decision and agency
		vi. Decisions and Christianity
	4. A Framework for Sovereign Decision-Making
		i. Agency
		ii. Knowledge
		iii. Options
		iv. Action
		v. Responsibility
		vi. Limitations
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index