Dominus mundi: political sublime and the world order

1. Master of the World and the Law of the Sea -- I. The Dominus, Carl Schmitt and Beyond -- II. The Dominus and Its Several Meanings -- III. The Dominus and Its Genealogy -- IV. Re-Thinking the Greek Rome -- 2. The Christian Empire as World Order -- I. The Revival of the Dominus -- II. Imperial Messianism -- III. The Lord of the Flies -- 3. Political Theology from Satan to Legitimacy -- I. Spatiality, Sovereignty and the Geopolitics of Discovery -- II. From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism -- 4. Demonological Inversion and the Birth of the Leviathan -- I. James I, the Witches and Bodin -- II. Leviathan's Ambiguity -- III. The Dominus Mundi and Hobbes's Frontispiece -- 5. Sublime Dissolution -- I. The Collapse of Modernity -- II. New Monsters and Good Feelings -- III. The Political Refoulé -- IV. The Ghost of the Dominus

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Master of the World and the Law of the Sea -- I. The Dominus, Carl Schmitt and Beyond -- II. The Dominus and Its Several Meanings -- III. The Dominus and Its Genealogy -- IV. Re-Thinking the Greek Rome -- 2. The Christian Empire as World Order -- I. The Revival of the Dominus -- II. Imperial Messianism -- III. The Lord of the Flies -- 3. Political Theology from Satan to Legitimacy -- I. Spatiality, Sovereignty and the Geopolitics of Discovery -- II. From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism -- 4. Demonological Inversion and the Birth of the Leviathan -- I. James I, the Witches and Bodin -- II. Leviathan's Ambiguity -- III. The Dominus Mundi and Hobbes's Frontispiece -- 5. Sublime Dissolution -- I. The Collapse of Modernity -- II. New Monsters and Good Feelings -- III. The Political Refoulé -- IV. The Ghost of the Dominus -- Bibliography -- Index