Cover -- Licence -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ontology as Political Theory -- Agamben's Philosophical Method -- Chapter 1: Potential ontology -- Aristotle on potentiality -- Agamben transcending Aristotle -- Bartleby and pure potentiality -- Tiananmen -- Chapter 2: What is life? On Homo Sacer -- Bare Life -- Sovereign Power -- The Sovereign Paradox -- Experimentation on life and the camp. -- Chapter 3: Political theology. On State of Exception -- Schmitt and the dictatorship model -- Iustitium rather than dictatorship -- Benjamin not Schmitt -- Auctoritas and Potestas -- Chapter 4: Economic Theology. On The Kingdom and the Glory -- The Genealogy of Oikonomia -- Angels and their offices -- Glory, inactivity, capture -- Chapter 5: Messianic profanations -- As if not -- The End -- References -- About the Author -- Humanities-Ebooks.co.uk.