Cover — Title — Copyright — Dedication — Contents — Acknowledgements — Note on translations and references — List of abbreviations — 1 Introduction — Schmitt and Derrida — Constitutional theory — Reading Schmitt — Sequence and overview of chapters — 2 The concept of the political — A. Polémios — Introduction — Plato — Schmitt — Freud — Heidegger — The structure of the political — B. Partisan — Introduction — Criteria — The question of technology — Philosophy and the Acheron — The brother as double — Woman as the absolute partisan — Today’s terror and the structure of the political — C. Self — Introduction — Defining man: nakedness — Stirner and his ego — Modern technology — Being-placed-in-question — Self-deception — Descartes and the self as enemy — Hegel and the enemy — Echo — The concept of the political — 3 Constituent power — Introduction — Political unity — Political theology — Fear and the Leviathan — Demos without sovereignty — Conclusion — 4 Identity and representation — Introduction — The formation of identity — Representation reconceived — Conclusion — 5 The concept of the constitution — A. Khōra — Introduction — Derrida’s reading of the Timaeus — Khōra and the political — Constitutions as giving place — B. Crypt — Introduction — The Wolf Man — The Wolf Man’s crypt — Constitution, memory and trauma — 6 Human rights — Introduction — Freedom — Equality — Living together — 7 State, Gro[beta]raum, nomos — Introduction — Nomos — Man, space, nomos — Conclusion — 8 Conclusion — Schmitt ‘before’ Derrida — Derrida reading Schmitt — Schmitt ‘after’ Derrida — Bibliography — Index