Introduction 1
The ethics of psychoanalysis 2
The morality of law 4
The biopolitical 10
Chapter outline 14
1 Law and ethics 17
The Antigone tragedy 17
The limit of the good 21
Beyond the good 25
2 Law without a lawgiver 30
Desire for death 36
The limit of life 39
3 Ethics and the good 41
Acting ethically 43
The moral law 48
Law and desire 51
4 Goodbye to Kant 53
The limit of the divine 55
The limit of death 58
Between two deaths 61
5 Law and life 66
The two Agambens 68
Politics and ontology 73
Violence and law 75
6 Law and violence 77
would prefer not to’ 80
Lacanian political theory 82
Can’t you see that I am dead? 86
Conclusion: A future uncertain 90
Notes 95
Bibliography 104
Index 116