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Frontmatter
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
1 Introduction
Bare life
The philosophical and political purport of bare life
Levinas and the question of human being
Heidegger and transcendence
Transcendence and politics in Levinas
The human and death
Human and inhuman: Inside and outside the law
Way of life and necessity
Human being and violence: Politics and ethics
Human as inoperativity
‘Immanence: “A” life’: The plane of immanence and transcendence
Conclusion
2 Consumer Society and Necessity
‘Necessity’ and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of taste
The issue of nature
3 Rethinking Arendt’s Th eory of Necessity and Freedom: Th e Ordinary as Extraordinary
The ordinary, the extraordinary and the ‘darkness’ of difference
‘Necessity’, the ordinary and statelessness
The polis
Oikos and economy
The human
Illustrating life as a way of life
Conclusion
4 Approaching the Human and Freedom
Freedom and constraint
Hegel on freedom
Schelling on freedom
Heidegger’s Idea of freedom
Nancy on freedom
Equaliberty
Foucault and freedom
Conclusion
5 Sovereignty and Heterology in Georges Bataille’s Version of Necessity and Freedom
Introduction
Sovereignty
Eroticism
Heterology
Reconsidering animality
Death, anguish and sacrifice
Conclusion: Heterology, sovereignty and transcendence
6 Humans and Animals: Way of Life as Transcendence
Prologue
Thinking the human-animal relation
Aspects of Simondon’s genealogy of the human–animal relation
The human–animal conceptual couple: An ‘anthropological machine’
Heidegger, Bataille and animality
Indistinction of the human–animal relation
Epilogue
7 Th e Moment of Death
The instant of death
Capital punishment and death that is not cruel
The implications of the opposition: Life–death
Biological and non-biological death and mediation
Death and the image
Death, objectification and spectacle
8 Th e Human as Technics: Technicity and ‘Way of Life’
The zoological and the sociological according to Leroi-Gourhan
Bernard Stiegler’s take on technics
Grammē, death and the clock
The polis and ‘who’ and ‘what’ of technics
Simondon: Humans and technics
9 Levinas, the Absolute Other, and Humanness
Husserl and the ‘natural attitude’
Levinas on the infinite and phenomenology
The polis and politics
10 Ways of Life – Not Bare Life: Being as Acting
Mauss on the body and prayer
Agamben on the oath, ethics and acclamation
Everyday life and utility
Formalism and abstraction
Conclusion
References
Index