Debt and Guilt A Political Philosophy

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Debt : Between appropriation, Exchange, and Gift......7 The problematic Context ........7 Appropriation ..10 Exchange.....19 Gift .....28 Debt .32 2. An Open Question .....39 The neoliberal turn .....39 The society of Generalized debt .....46 The paradigm of Man in Debt ........54 3. Between political theology and Economic Theology ..........61 Beyond the boundaries of Economic.......65 Faith in the Era of the predominance of finance .72 Debt and Sacrifice ......76 Guilt and violence: At the origin of Juridical Power .........80 The religion of Debt .........89 Bare life and the law .....89 Capitalism : A cult with no theology...94 Economy and regulatory experimentation .............101 The invention of Oikonomia ..108 Debt as investment..........116 5. The psycic life of Debt .........125 The Guilt of Being in Debt ..125 Establishing the Rule : Psychic Dimension and Social Sphere ...132 Feminism and Neoliberalism .......125 The mystery of Guilt and the psychic life of Power ........145 Envisioning new ways of Assuming power .....153