Elettra Stimilli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Jacob Taubes (2004) and The Debt of the Living (2017) and the editor of Italian Critical Thought (2018).

Stefania Porcelli is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature, CUNY, USA

A timely addition to Bloomsbury's growing collection of translations by Italian philosophers, a blossoming are in contemporary critical thought.

Introduction
Chapter One: Debt: Between Appropriation, Exchange, and Gift
1. The Problematic Context
2. Appropriation
3. Exchange
4. Gift

Chapter Two: An Open Question
1. The Neoliberal Turn
2. The Society of Generalized Debt
3. The Paradigm of Man in Debt

Chapter Three: Between Political Theology and Economic Theology
1. Beyond the Boundaries of Economic Science
2. Religion, Politics, and Economics
3. "Faith" in the Era of the Predominance of Finance
4. Debt and Sacrifice
5. Guilt and Violence: At the Origin of Juridical Power

Chapter Four: The Religion of Debt
1. Bare Life and the Law
2. Capitalism: A Cult with no Theology
3. Economy and Regulatory Experimentation
4. The Invention of Oikonomia
5. Debt as Investment

Chapter Five: The Psychic Life of Debt
1. The Guilt of Being in Debt
2. Establishing the Rule: Psychic Dimension and Social Sphere
3. Feminism and Neoliberalism
4. The Mystery of Guilt and the Psychic Life of Power
5. Envisioning New Ways of Assuming Power

Conclusions
Bibliography
Index