An edition of La forma e la decisione
(1985)
La forma e la decisione
Studi critici
by Emanuele Castrucci
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Introduction
1. Age of the "Form"
2. Age of the "Decision".
Part I
Seventeenth Century Europe and the End of the Classic Concept of Form
Part II
Theology and Politics: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt
Part III
Beyond Form and Decision: Robert Musil and the Concept of "Good Life"
Part IV
Some Theoretical Reconstructions: Paul Valéry's Interpretation of Plato, Symposion.
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Table of Contents
Introduction. A lost form
1. The «Age of Form»
2. The «Age of Decision»
3. A difficult overcoming of Decisionism
Part I
AESTHETICS AND POLITICS IN THE 17th CENTURY EUROPE.
A DISINTEGRATION OF THE CLASSIC FORM
I. THE INDECISION OF A LIBERTINE. HISTORY OF IDEAS AND DECISIONIST THEORY
OF THE STATE
1. Sovereignty, history, decision
2. The problem of the political subjectivity between Individualism and Absolutism
3. Allegory of the «balance»
II. THE BAROQUE CREATURE
1. Phenomenology of the Gleichnis
2. Sensible appearance and intelligible essence
3. A lost foundation, a constructive illusion and Michaelstaedter
4. Baroque perception of the unnatural existence
5. The «Philosophy of oblivion»
6. «Little death» and the nihilism
Part II
THEOLOGY AND POLITICS: WALTER BENJANIN AND CARL SCHMITT
I. LAW AS MYTH. ON THE YOUNG BENJAMIN
1. The liberal conception of language and interaction
2. «For a critique of violence»
3. Benjamin and Horkheimer
4. Benjamin and Kraus. Law as myth
5. Fate, fault, law. The Theological-political Fragment
6. Fight for happiness and the contemporary nihilism
II. THE PROBLEM OF A POLITICAL THEOLOGY
1. First definitions
2. Political theology as a general conception of the foundation of legitimacy in politics
3. Metaphysical assumptions of the nihilist theology. Jus reformandi or jus revolutionis
4. Legitimacy versus legality. The so called «need of legitimation»
5. Theological-political objectivism?
6. Some final thesis and a conclusive doubt
III. NAPHTA, OR A KATECHON FOR EUROPE
1. An unusual Jesuit
2. Naphta, Schmitt and the European crisis
Part III
SOME PATHS BEYOND FORM AND DECISION: ROBERT MUSIL
AND THE «GOOD LIFE»
I. EKSTATISCHE SOZIETAT. PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL NOTES ON ROBERT MUSIL
1. The crisis of the «subject-object» relationship. Some implications in European literature at the beginning
of the 20th century. – Between Hofmannsthal and Wittgenstein. – Kakanien as a philosophical and
political microcosm.
2. Decline of the possessive individualism and characters of Musil’s The man without qualities. – The man
without properties.
3. Ekstatische Sozietät : the lost «period of corporeity». – Ulrich, Agathe and the «other state» – The
problem of a good life and the «nostalgia of the essences».
II. LAW AND MOOSBRUGGER
1. Ulrich, the science and Moosbrugger
2. The language of Moosbrugger
3. Phenomenology of law and life
4. Justice, responsibility, disruption of order
Part IV
A KIND OF RECONSTRUCTION: PAUL VALÉRY’S PLATO AND THE PROBLEM
OF A «CREATIVE DOING», RESHAPER OF FORMS
I. DIOTIMA SPEAKS. PAUL VALÉRY’S PLATO
1. Diotima’s speech
2. Poietics and political knowledge
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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