Groundless Existence

Michael Marder is Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the Associate Editor of Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought.

"'Not only Schmitt scholars but also all those interested in the meaning of politics after deconstruction will find this book to be an indispensable text. A genuine "must read.' - Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala, authors of Hermeneutic Communism 'Groundless Existence is the new gold standard in Schmitt scholarship and an indispensable point of reference in political philosophy.' - Russell Berman, Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature & Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University"

• List of Abbreviations: The Works of Carl Schmitt; Introduction: On the Possibility of a Non-Objectivist Political Ontology; Part I - The Elements; Chapter 1 - Geometry of the Exception: The Point and The Line To the Point; Chapter 2 - The Danger: Unavoidability of Risk; A Taxonomy of Risk; Chapter 3 - The Non-Ground: From the Concept of the Political to the Event of Politics; Chapter 4 - Politics in Question; Part II - The Critique; Chapter 5 - Metonymic Abuses of Modernity; In the Name of the Law...; Chapter 6 - Political Reduction to Constitutive Subjectivity; Schmitt and Husserl: From the Crisis; Part III - On the Ground; Chapter 7 Living Forms: Culture, Multiculturalism and the Complexio Oppositorum; Chapter 8 - Political Hermeneutics: The Necessity of Interpretation.