Acknowledgements Introduction. "I used to say I had troubles sleeping, then I realized I had more troubles with wakefulness" Chapter 1. A Symptomatic Exclusion of Sleep in Philosophy 1.1. A Critique of Oneiro-centricism and a New Space for Research 1.2. Isolation and Potentiality: Two Primary Models 1.3.

Descartes: Sleep, Madness and Sceptical Argument 1.4. ".Life could not maintain itself for an instant": Sleep and Dream in Kant 1.5. Hegel: Sleep, Subjectivity and the Absolute 1.6. Freud: ".

essentially a problem of physiology." Chapter 2. Sleep and Subjectivity 2.1. The "Ontological Meaning of Sleep" (Lévinas) 2.2. The Singularity of the Sleeper in Some (Uncommon) Examples of Contemporary Thought 2.3.

Sleep, Wakefulness and Vigilance Chapter 3. Rex Exsomnis: A Political Theology of Sleep and Vigilance 3.1. "The Great Awakening" 3.2. A Vigilance Complex in Philosophy? 3.3. Non-Sleeping Sovereign (Rex Exsomnis) 3.

4 ".sans (t)rêve et sans merci": Sleep and Awakening in Walter Benjamin's Writings Chapter 4. Sleep in Capitalist Modernity 4.1. The Question of Sleep in Das Kapital and the Concept of the "Natural Barrier" in the Grundrisse 4.2. Non-Sleeping Society 4.3.

The Limit of the Social 4.4. Cultures of Sleep and Industries of Night Chapter 5. (An)aesthetics of Sleep 5.1. "Sleeping Beauty": A Political Theology in Fairy Tale 5.2. Sleeping Sonata: Art of Sleep Under Communism 5.

3. "Is the Worker Asleep?" From Warhol to Contemporary Art 5.4. Sleep as the Possibility of Artwork Conclusion. Vigilance of Being Itself? An Ontological Hypothesis Bibliography Index.