Antonio Cerella is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and International Studies at Kingston University London, UK.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Walking Tree

Part I: On Sovereignty:
1. Rex sacrorum: On the Origins and Evolution of Sovereign Power
2. Space and Sovereignty: A Reverse Perspective

Part II: Political Theologies
3. Encounters at the End of a World: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and the Tyranny of Values
4. Until the End of the World: René Girard, Carl Schmitt, and the Origins of Violence
5. Religion and Political Form: Schmitt contra Habermas

Part III: History and Archaeology:
6. The Myth of Origin: Archaeology and History in the Work of Giorgio Agamben and René Girard
7. Imago mortis, imago Dei: An Archaeology of Political Sacrifice

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