Preface; Introduction: The Classic-Juridical Model; Part I: The Radical-Juridical Critique; 1. Critiquing Violence: Walter Benjamin on Law and the Divine; 2. Divinity within the Law: Carl Schmitt on the Violence of Sovereignty; 3.Violence and Power: Arendt on the Logic of Totalitarianism; 4. Disrupting Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari on the War Machine; Part II: The Biopolitical Critique; 5. From Law to Life: Foucault, Sovereignty, and Biopolitical Racism; 6. Agamben on Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Civil War; Part III: The Bio-Juridical Critique; 7. Life and Law: Derrida on the Bio-Juridicalism of Sovereign Violence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.