Introduction : the idea of potentiality
Art for art's sake. The destruction of aesthetics and the man without content (1970)
A general science of the human. Stanzas : word and phantasm in western culture (1977)
A critique of the dialectic. Infancy and history : the destruction of experience (1978)
The pure potentiality of representation. Idea of prose (1985)
From spectacle to shekinah : the coming community (1990)
The potential of paradigms. Homo sacer : sovereign power and bare life (1995)
The unique and the unsayable. Remnants of Auschwitz : the witness and the archive. Homo sacer III (1998)
The suspended substantive. On animals and men in the open : man and animal (2002)
The exceptional life of the state. State of exception (2003)
The messiah, or on the sacred and the profane
Conclusion : the idea of the work.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Praise; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations of Agamben's Works; Preface: The Law of the Good Neighbor; Introduction: The Idea of Potentiality; CHAPTER ONE
Art for Art's Sake: The Destruction of Aesthetics and The Man Without Content; The Original Stature of the Work of Art; The Structure of Destruction; Divine Madness; Art as Art; Original Status; Rhythm, Structure, and Structuralism; Danger and Rescue; Construction and Destruction; Tradition, Transmission, and the Work of Art; The House in Flames; Reception.
