Editor's Introduction, Stephen Howard Acknowledgements PART ONE: CONDITIONS Section one: Starting points 1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics 2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx 3. Violence, Civility and the Predicaments of Philosophy 4. Politics and War: Hegel and Clausewitz 5. Perpetual Police? Kosovo and the Elision of Police and Military Violence Section two: Affirmation 6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or 'Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified' 7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche 8.

Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy 9. Under the Epicurean Skies 10. That Perhaps Abused Word. Section three: Life 11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene 12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture 13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure 14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon 'Two Things Fill the Mind' 15.

Life and Energy Section four: Philosophy/science 16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze's Biophilosophy 17. The Force of Kant's Opus postumum 18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance 19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction 20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological Scales Section five: Immanence 21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism 22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka's "Nature Theatre of Oklahama" 23.

Benjamin's Natural Theology 24. Levinas's Silence 25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982 PART TWO: RESISTANCE 26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers 27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate 29. Clausewitz and Idealism 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience 31.

Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias 32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist 33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the World Afterword by Jacqueline Rose.