La forma e la decisione
Subtitle: Studi critici
By: Emanuele Castrucci.
Series: Valori politici ;
Publisher: Giuffrè
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Milan, Italy
Language: ita
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Political science -- Decision making.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A lost form; title: 1. The «Age of Form»; title: 2. The «Age of Decision»; title: 3. A difficult overcoming of Decisionism; title: Part  I; title: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS IN THE 17th CENTURY EUROPE.; title: A DISINTEGRATION OF THE CLASSIC FORM; title: I. THE INDECISION OF A LIBERTINE. HISTORY OF IDEAS AND DECISIONIST THEORY; title: OF THE STATE; title: 1. Sovereignty, history, decision; title: 2. The problem of the political subjectivity between Individualism and Absolutism; title: 3. Allegory of the «balance»; title: II. THE BAROQUE CREATURE; title: 1. Phenomenology of the Gleichnis; title: 2. Sensible appearance and intelligible essence; title: 3. A lost foundation, a constructive illusion and Michaelstaedter; title: 4. Baroque perception of the unnatural existence; title: 5. The «Philosophy of oblivion»; title: 6. «Little death» and the nihilism; title: Part  II; title: THEOLOGY AND POLITICS: WALTER BENJANIN AND CARL SCHMITT; title: I. LAW AS MYTH. ON THE YOUNG BENJAMIN; title: 1. The liberal conception of language and interaction; title: 2. «For a critique of violence»; title: 3. Benjamin and Horkheimer; title: 4. Benjamin and Kraus. Law as myth; title: 5. Fate, fault, law. The Theological-political Fragment; title: 6. Fight for happiness and the contemporary nihilism; title: II. THE PROBLEM OF A POLITICAL THEOLOGY; title: 1. First definitions; title: 2. Political theology as a general conception of the foundation of legitimacy in politics; title: 3. Metaphysical assumptions of the nihilist theology. Jus reformandi or jus revolutionis; title: 4. Legitimacy versus legality. The so called «need of legitimation»; title: 5. Theological-political objectivism?; title: 6. Some final thesis and a conclusive doubt; title: III. NAPHTA, OR A KATECHON FOR EUROPE; title: 1. An unusual Jesuit; title: 2. Naphta, Schmitt and the European crisis; title: Part  III; title: SOME PATHS BEYOND FORM AND DECISION: ROBERT MUSIL; title: AND THE «GOOD LIFE»; title: I. EKSTATISCHE SOZIETAT. PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL NOTES ON ROBERT MUSIL; title: 1. The crisis of the «subject-object» relationship. Some implications in European literature at the beginning; title: of the 20th century. – Between Hofmannsthal and Wittgenstein. – Kakanien as a philosophical and; title: political microcosm.; title: 2. Decline of the possessive individualism and characters of Musil’s The man without qualities. – The man; title: without properties.; title: 3. Ekstatische Sozietät : the lost «period of corporeity». – Ulrich, Agathe and the «other state» – The; title: problem of a good life and the «nostalgia of the essences».; title: II. LAW AND MOOSBRUGGER; title: 1. Ulrich, the science and Moosbrugger; title: 2. The language of Moosbrugger; title: 3. Phenomenology of law and life; title: 4. Justice, responsibility, disruption of order; title: Part  IV; title: A KIND OF RECONSTRUCTION: PAUL VALÉRY’S PLATO AND THE PROBLEM; title: OF A «CREATIVE DOING»,  RESHAPER OF FORMS; title: I. DIOTIMA SPEAKS. PAUL VALÉRY’S PLATO; title: 1. Diotima’s speech; title: 2. Poietics and political knowledge