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"This book integrates Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary conversations about energy. By interpreting actuality as energy in the Hegelian corpus, the author provides a new lens for understanding the dialectical project and the energy⁰́₁starved condition of our contemporaneity"--

Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms "categorial thinking." Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new, plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, the people, sovereignty, and power.

Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger's work without ignoring his noxious public engagementsThe most controversial philosopher of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger has influenced generations of intellectuals even as his involvement with Nazism and blatant anti-Semitism, made even clearer after the publication of hisBlack Notebooks, have recently prompted some to discard his contributions entirely. For Michael Marder, Heidegger's thought remains critical for interpretations of contemporary politics and our relation to the natural environment.Bringing together and reframing more than a decade of Marder's work on Heidegger, this volume questions the wholesale rejection of Heidegger, arguing that dismissive readings of his project overlook the fact that it is impossible to grasp without appreciating his lifelong commitment to phenomenology and that Heidegger's anti-Semitism is an aberration in his still-relevant ecological and political thought, rather than a defining characteristic. Through close readings of Heidegger's books and seminars, along with writings by other key phenomenologists and political philosophers, Marder contends that neither Heidegger's politics nor his reflections on ecology should be considered in isolation from his phenomenology. By demonstrating the codetermination of his phenomenological, ecological, and political thinking, Marder accounts for Heidegger's failures without either justifying them or suggesting that they invalidate his philosophical endeavor as a whole.

Energy dreams -- Theological musings -- Economic chimeras -- Psychological reveries -- Political phantasies -- Physical fancies -- The last word: energy or energies? -- P.S. the very last word

List of Abbreviations: The Works of Carl Schmitt ; Introduction: On the Possibility of a Non-Objectivist Political Ontology -- Part I - The Elements. Chapter 1 - Geometry of the Exception: The Point and The Line ; Chapter 2 - The Danger: Unavoidability of Risk ; Chapter 3 - The Non-Ground: From the Concept of the Political to the Event of Politics ; Chapter 4 - Politics in Question -- Part II - The Critique. Chapter 5 - Metonymic Abuses of Modernity ; Chapter 6 - Political Reduction to Constitutive Subjectivity -- Part III - On the Ground. Chapter 7 - Living Forms: Culture, Multiculturalism and the Complexio Oppositorum ; Chapter 8 - Political Hermeneutics: The Necessity of Interpretation.