Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Enabling Constraints
Part 1. Reinventing the Symbolic
1. Inventions of the Symbolic: Lacan's Reading of Freud
2. Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change
Part 2. Political Theology and the Question of the Written
3. Wrestling with the Angel
4. The Gap in the Law and the Unwritable Act of Decision: Carl Schmitt's Political Theology
5. The Event of the Letter: Two Approaches to the Law and Its Real
6. The Commandment Against the Law: Writing and Divine Justice in Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" and Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment
Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Symbolic Life
7. Freedom Through Constraints: On the Question of Will
Notes
Index