On the Idea of Potency: Juridical and Theological Roots of the Western Cultural Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781474411844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 200 str.

Emanuele Castrucci

Opis

Emanuele Castrucci bridges the two seemingly unrelated worlds of classical Greek philosophy and Jewish biblical exegesis. He connects them through the historical nexus of Christianity, which has marked the destiny of Western philosophy across the political, philosophical and jurisprudential horizons.

Spis treści

Preface; I. The Logos of Potency. A theoretical Introduction; II. Logos of ‘Potentia Dei’; III. ‘Ordained potency’ vs. ‘Absolute Potency’; IV. Political Theology Reconsidered; V. Genealogies of Constituent Potency. Schmitt, Nietzsche, Spinoza; Corollaries: I. On the Origins of Conventionalist Political Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century; II. The Problem of a Political Theology; III. Rhetoric of Ethical Universalism. Jürgen Habermas and the Dissolution of Political Realism; Bibliography; Index of names.