Contents -- Foreword: The Left and Ontopolitics -- Introduction: Thinking Outside In -- I. AGAMBEN, VIOLENCE, AND REDEMPTION -- 1. The Structure of the Political vs. the Politics of Hope -- 2. The Function of Ambivalence in Agamben's Reontologization of Politics -- II. THE PERSISTENCE OF MARXISM -- 3. Twenty-five Theses on Philosophy in the Age of Finance Capital -- 4. Periodizing the 80s: The Cultural Logic of Economic Privatization in the United States -- 5. Marxist Theory: From Aesthetic Critique to Cultural Politics -- 6. Is Socialism the Index of a Leftist Ontology? -- III. DECONSTRUCTION/POLITICS -- 7. Deconstruction and Experience: The Politics of the Undeconstructable -- 8. Politics and the Fiction of the Political -- 9. The Last God: María Zambrano's Life without Texture -- IV. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE POLITICAL -- 10. Signification and Substance: Toward a Leftist Ontology of the Present -- 11. A Politics of Melancholia -- Afterword: Thinking, Being, Acting -- or, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Ontology for Politics -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.