Encountering tragedy Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	On Tragedy	1
	Rousseau's Legacy	1
	Thinking Tragedy	3
	The Ironic Road to Cruelty	10
	Ontological Intimations	12
	Virtue Wars	16
	Political Incommensurabilities	20
2	On Nature	25
	First Movement: Attunement	27
	Second Movement: Ressentiment	32
	Third Movement: Tragedy	35
	Concluding with Hobbes	40
	Eternal Returns	42
3	On Founding	45
	Founding Paradoxes	47
	Founding Violence	55
	Founding Poetics	61
	Founding Fictions	66
	Founding Politics	71
	Founding Futures	73
4	On Government	75
	Governmentality	77
	Government and Sovereignty	80
	Government and Order	81
	Government and Politics	84
	The Government of Security and Liberty	89
	The Government of Service and Signs	95
	The Government of Life and Morality	99
	The Government of Sexuality and Pleasure	103
	The Government of Opinion and Culture	106
	The Government of Sovereignty	114
5	On Enmity	121
	Virtue and Enmity	124
	Moral Enmity	128
	Gender Enmity	133
	Foreign Enmity	139
	Civil Wars	143
	On Cruelty	145
	The Return of the Repressed	148
	Notes	155
	Index	187