Introduction: A brief outline of the Homo Sacer series; Chapter One: Religious and political implications of the Homo Sacer project; The fiction of sovereignty; Oaths, language and the divine name; On God and gods from the point of view of a modal ontology; An ontology of demand; Chapter Two: On Aristotle, actuality and potentiality; Aristotle and the problem of "potency"; Potentiality as a form of resistance; Contemplation of the inappropriable; Demand, memory and the place of thought; Chapter Three: Glory and the significance of political theology; Kingdom, government and sovereignty; The desire for order; Sovereign glory; Chapter Four: Economy and its inoperativity; The bi-polar sovereignty of identity; Subjects and the suspension of identity; New uses of the body; Messianic or hypernomian; Chapter Five: The border between the human and the animal; The fiction of the human being; The problem of anthropogenesis; Anthropogenesis and metaphysics; Chapter Six: Paul and the messianic division of division; A possible hermeneutic; The gesture of Pope Benedict XVI; Towards a negative dialectic; Dialectics at a standstill; The messianic and the future of dialectics; Chapter Seven: A form-of-life beyond the law; The temporality of fashion and art; What is a form-of-life?; Form-of-life as end goal; Mystery and desire; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.