Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University, London, UK. He is author of On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Kafka: In Light of the Accident (Bloomsbury, 2017).Stephen Howard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.

For the past three decades Howard Caygill has been one of the two or three leading practitioners and exponents of European philosophy in the UK. This remarkable collection of selected essays is an intellectual event in itself, demonstrating Caygill’s remarkable range, depth and unique form of critical engagement. Of especial note are the five exquisite essays on Nietzsche, the parallel essays on life and the life sciences, and the defiant series of essays that anticipate and complement Caygill’s resistance trilogy. And then there is the beautiful, moving, and great demystifying opening essay on Gillian Rose.

• Editor’s Introduction, Stephen HowardAcknowledgementsPART ONE: CONDITIONSSection one: Starting points1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx3. 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 ViolenceSection two: Affirmation 6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or ‘Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified’7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy 9. Under the Epicurean Skies10. That Perhaps Abused Word… Section three: Life11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon ‘Two Things Fill the Mind’15. Life and EnergySection four: Philosophy/science16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze’s Biophilosophy17. The Force of Kant’s Opus postumum18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological ScalesSection five: Immanence21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka’s “Nature Theatre of Oklahama”23. Benjamin's Natural Theology24. Levinas’s Silence25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982PART TWO: RESISTANCE26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate29. Clausewitz and Idealism 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist 33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the WorldAfterword by Jacqueline Rose

Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University, London, UK. He is author of On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Kafka: In Light of the Accident (Bloomsbury, 2017).Stephen Howard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.

For the past three decades Howard Caygill has been one of the two or three leading practitioners and exponents of European philosophy in the UK. This remarkable collection of selected essays is an intellectual event in itself, demonstrating Caygill’s remarkable range, depth and unique form of critical engagement. Of especial note are the five exquisite essays on Nietzsche, the parallel essays on life and the life sciences, and the defiant series of essays that anticipate and complement Caygill’s resistance trilogy. And then there is the beautiful, moving, and great demystifying opening essay on Gillian Rose.

• Editor’s Introduction, Stephen HowardAcknowledgementsPART ONE: CONDITIONSSection one: Starting points1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx3. 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 ViolenceSection two: Affirmation 6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or ‘Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified’7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy 9. Under the Epicurean Skies10. That Perhaps Abused Word… Section three: Life11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon ‘Two Things Fill the Mind’15. Life and EnergySection four: Philosophy/science16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze’s Biophilosophy17. The Force of Kant’s Opus postumum18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological ScalesSection five: Immanence21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka’s “Nature Theatre of Oklahama”23. Benjamin's Natural Theology24. Levinas’s Silence25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982PART TWO: RESISTANCE26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate29. Clausewitz and Idealism 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist 33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the WorldAfterword by Jacqueline Rose

Howard Caygill is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University, London, UK. He is author of On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Kafka: In Light of the Accident (Bloomsbury, 2017).Stephen Howard is a Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.

For the past three decades Howard Caygill has been one of the two or three leading practitioners and exponents of European philosophy in the UK. This remarkable collection of selected essays is an intellectual event in itself, demonstrating Caygill’s remarkable range, depth and unique form of critical engagement. Of especial note are the five exquisite essays on Nietzsche, the parallel essays on life and the life sciences, and the defiant series of essays that anticipate and complement Caygill’s resistance trilogy. And then there is the beautiful, moving, and great demystifying opening essay on Gillian Rose.

• Editor’s Introduction, Stephen HowardAcknowledgementsPART ONE: CONDITIONSSection one: Starting points1. Gillian Rose 1947-1995: Art, Justice and Metaphysics2. The Return of Nietzsche and Marx3. 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 ViolenceSection two: Affirmation 6. The Consolation of Philosophy, or ‘Neither Dionysus Nor the Crucified’7. Philosophy and Cultural Reform in the Early Nietzsche8. Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy 9. Under the Epicurean Skies10. That Perhaps Abused Word… Section three: Life11. Drafts for a Metaphysics of the Gene12. Liturgies of Fear: Biotechnology and Culture13. Life and Aesthetic Pleasure14. Soul and Cosmos in Kant: A Commentary upon ‘Two Things Fill the Mind’15. Life and EnergySection four: Philosophy/science16. The Topology of Selection: The Limits of Deleuze’s Biophilosophy17. The Force of Kant’s Opus postumum18. Technology and the Propitiation of Chance19. Bataille and the Neanderthal Extinction20. Inhuman Destruction: The Critique of Violence According to Geological ScalesSection five: Immanence21. Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism22. The Fate of the Pariah: Arendt and Kafka’s “Nature Theatre of Oklahama”23. Benjamin's Natural Theology24. Levinas’s Silence25. Tableaux for a Massacre: Shatila, Thursday-Sunday 16-19 September 1982PART TWO: RESISTANCE26. Philosophy and the Black Panthers27. The White Mask: Light and Shadow in Fanon 28. The Spirit of Resistance and its Fate29. Clausewitz and Idealism 30. Debt and the Origins of Obedience31. Resisting Escalation: The Image of Villa Amalias32. Strategic Intervention and the Digital Capacity to Resist 33. XR: Thinking Resistance at the End of the WorldAfterword by Jacqueline Rose