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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Blood Diamonds and the Limits of Moral Knowledge -- 2. State Privilege to Kill -- 3. Victims' Rights and Double Jeopardy -- 4. Political Theology and the Law of War -- 5. Wrongful Life Tort -- 6. Is Carl Schmitt Right? Is Just War Impossible? -- 7. Why the Case of the Maltese Twins Was Wrongly Decided -- 8. Kosovo Air War and Why Malthus Was Really a Wise Man -- Conclusion: Natural Law as Political Theology -- Appendix: The "Summa Theologica" -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Robert Kilwardby's Angelism -- Chapter 2 Hellfire and the Burning Fleshof the Disembodied -- Chapter 3 Early Modern Angelism and Schopenhauer's Vitalism -- Chapter 4 Vitalism and National Socialism -- Chapter 5 Agamben on the Ontology of Clothes -- Chapter 6 Clothes and Merleau-Ponty's Flesh -- Chapter 7 Value Theory and Natural Law -- Chapter 8 Play and Liturgy -- Conclusion: Moral Theory and Liturgy -- Notes -- Index -- www .bbc .com /news /magazine -27903742.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyrght -- Contents -- Foreword -- Translator's Note -- Preface to First German Edition (Leipzig 1921) -- Preface to Second German Edition (Leipzig 1923) -- Repentance and Rebirth -- The Nature of Philosophy and the Moral Preconditions of Philosophical Knowledge -- 1. The Autonomy of Philosophy -- 2. The Philosophical Attitude (The Idea of the Philosopher) -- 3. Analysis of the Moral Upsurge -- A. The Moral Upsurge as a Personal act of 'The Whole Man' -- B. Starting-Point and Elements of the Moral Upsurge -- 4. Philosophy's Object and Cognitive Attitude -- Problems of Religion -- 1. Religion and Philosophy -- Existing Views Typified -- The types of Partial and Total Identity -- Dualistic Views -- The System of Conformity -- 2. The Essential Phenomenology of Religion -- Branches of Study -- The Divine -- Basic Character of the Divine -- The attributes of God in natural religion -- Growth and decline of the natural knowledge of God -- Attributes of the divine mind -- The Religious Act -- The immanent aspects of the religious act -- Religious acts are a law unto themselves -- The religious act in its internal and external, individual and social aspects -- No man can avoid the religious act -- Some Regent Basic Theories of Natural Religion -- 3. Why no New Religion? -- The Idea of a Personal god Conflicts with the Expectation of a New Religion -- The Prospects of a 'New Religion', Seen in the Light Ofthesocio-Historical Distribution of Cognitive Aptitudes -- Christian Love and the Twentieth Century -- 1. Humanitarianism and the Christian Commandment of Love -- 2. The Christian Idea of Community -- 3. The Present Relevance of the Christian Idea of Community -- The Reconstruction Of European Culture -- 1. The Political framework and Moral Conditions of Cultural Reconstruction in Europe

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Dying Trajectories and the Organization of Work -- Chapter 2. Sudden Death: A Case of Suicide -- Chapter 3. Initial Definitions of the Dying Trajectory -- Chapter 4. Lingering Trajectories: Institutional Dying -- Chapter 5. Lingering Trajectories: At Home and in Hospitals -- Chapter 6. The Expected Quick Trajectory -- Chapter 7. The Unexpected Quick Trajectory -- Chapter 8. Last Weeks and Days -- Chapter 9. Ending the Dying Trajectory -- Chapter 10. After Death in the Hospital -- Chapter 11. Time, Structural Process, and Status Passage -- Chapter 12. Improving the Care of the Dying -- Appendix -- Index

chapter 1 Max Scheler's Critique and Assessment of Freud's Theory of Libido (1925) -- chapter 2 High-Mindedness (1931) -- chapter 3 The Total State and Civilisation (1933) -- chapter 4 What Is Politics About? (1933) -- chapter 5 Heidegger and National Socialism (1934) -- chapter 6 On Human Equality (1934) -- chapter 7 Othmar Spann's Theory of Totality (1934) -- chapter 8 The Abuse of the Vital (1934) -- chapter 9 Democracy and Reality (1935) -- chapter 10 An Essay on Hatred (1935) -- chapter 11 The Humanitarian versus the Religious Attitude (1944) -- chapter 12 Contemporary British Philosophy and Its Political Aspects (1959) -- chapter 13 Human Dignity Today (1960) -- chapter 14 Dignity (1969) -- chapter 15 The Ghost of the Naturalistic Fallacy (1962) -- chapter 16 ? Defence of Intrinsicalism against 'Situation Ethics' (1970) -- chapter 17 The Moral Emphasis: Obligation, Practice, and Virtue.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface -- Introduction -- The German conception: political romanticism as an ideology of reaction and restoration -- The French conception: romanticism as a revolutionary principle -- Rousseauism -- The explanation of revolution in terms of the esprit romantique and the esprit classique -- The confusion of the concept of political romanticism and the path to a definition -- 1 The Outward Situation -- The personal political significance of romantic writers in Germany -- Schlegel's political insignificance -- Müller's political development: an Anglophile in Gottingen, a feudal and estatist-conservative anticentralist in Berlin, a functionary of the absolutist centralized state in the Tyrol -- 2 The Structure of the Romantic Spirit -- La recherche de la Réalité -- The occasionalist structure of romanticism -- 3 Political Romanticism -- Survey of the development of theories of the state since -- The difference between the romantic conception of the state and the counterrevolutionary and legitimist conception -- The state and the king as occasional objects of romantic interest -- The romantic incapacity for ethical and legal valuation -- Romanticized ideas in political philosophy -- Adam Miiller's productivity: his mode of argumentation: the rhetorically formed resonance of significant impressions -- his antitheses: rhetorical contrasts -- The occasional character of all romanticized objects -- Brief indication of the difference between political 146 romanticism and a romantic politics: In the latter, it is the effect and not the cause that is occasional -- Excursus: the romantic as a political type in the 149 conception of the liberal bourgeoisie, exemplified by David Friedrich Strauss's Julian the Apostate