The Metaphysics of Power

Mounting a searing critique of Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmidt--and their broader influence on the contemporary Left, including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek--Anthony Mansueto's The Metaphysics of Power argues that the common flaw of all contemporary political projects--Left and Right--is a narrow strategic focus on achieving and holding state power. This focus is grounded in a doctrine of sovereignty (divine and human) rooted in a decisionist political theology,