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Messianesimo e teologia politica.: Il katechon tra Taubes e Schmitt
No full textMessianism and Political Theology. The katechon between Jacob Taubes and Carl Schmitt. The aim of this paper is to investigate the link between aesthetics and politics nested in the image of the katechon evoked by Paul in the second letter to the Thessalonians. An image which apparently alludes to the restraining force which holds this world delaying the Second Coming. My purpose is to show how the image of the katechon has become conceptually intermixed with a symbolic and figurative legitimation of political power. While Carl Schmitt held the passage on the katechon to ground the Christian doctrine of state power as an alternative to nihilism, Jacob Taubes reading of Pauline messianism shows how the katechon can be considered as a conservative force. This article focuses on the recurrence of katechon in contemporary continental philosophy in opposition at the alarming announcement that the End is no
Estetica e istituzioni : forma e vita nell’Institutional Turn di Carl Schmitt
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to investigate the link between aesthetics and life nested in Carl Schmitt’s morphology. From one hand, Schmitt appear to be inept to solve the problem of the relationship between form and life. Indeed, in Decisionism, Form prevails over life and, in Institutionalism, life prevails over Form. The former is inflexible and conservative, the latter weak and changeable. On the other side, Walter Benjamin sets up a deeper perspective to overcame Schmittian limits along the line of his early studies on German Romanticism. My aim is to prove – through the aesthetical background of these two political philosophers – that nowadays it is possible to understand the multifarious nexus between form and life only from both a political and an aesthetical perspectiv
Forme dell'istituzione : oltre il dualismo di politica e società
No full textThe volume "Istituzione. Filosofia, politica, storia" investigates the
multifarious nexus between society and politics. This nexus can
be tracked down starting from two opposite needs: the refusal
of theological-political transcendence – on one hand – and the
refusal of a bare plan of immanence, on the other side.
Therefore, this article focuses peculiarly on the symbolic
question, enquiring how
differences can be represented. This is
a question we can consider from both a political and an
esthetical perspective
L’immaginazione conservatrice di Carl Schmitt
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to analyse Schmittian aesthetics as an underrated theoretical
aspect of Schmitt’s political thought. The scope of the paper is to show that Schmitt’s
aesthetics should be considered the key factor to grasping the bulk of his theory.
His theory – divided between formlessness and form, romanticism and Catholicism,
politics and theology – can also be delineated as an alternative between nihilism
and imagination. Therefore, this research concludes that imagination is not only a
path for political reform, but it can also take on a politically conservative mission
Teologia politica del corpo : un’estetica dell’incarnazione in Schmitt, Kantorowicz e Balthasar
No full textThe body as an image of power – from Saint Paul’s letters to Thomas Hobbes’
Leviathan – is a successful theological-political figure. On the body image
is also centered Carl Schmitt’s political theology conceived from his studies
about Roman Catholicism. Thus, starting from Schmitt’s theory of Church’s
visibility, it is possible to investigate the relationship between body meta-
phor and political theology. There are two opposite ways to develop this link:
the first, it is structuring a transcendence through the body and, the second,
it is creating an immanence trough the embodiment. The first is systematized
by Kantorowicz in The King’s two bodies, the second concerns closer Carl
Schmitt’s idea of incarnation shared by Hans Urs von Balthasar. The link
between immanence and transcendence is therefore the key to understand
how the body metaphor has to be read from an aesthetical perspective. This
appears to be the only way to safeguard a secularized form of transcendence
when bare immanence is evidently untenable. In this way, my aim is to ask
where should be placed the mythopoetic resources that the political theology
now seems unable to preserve
L'estetica di Carl Schmitt
Full text linkThe thesis aims to redefine the relationship between background and foreground in Schmittian studies by considering aesthetics as essential to understanding his political theory. Schmitt had various interactions with contemporary artists and writers, providing a starting point for the analysis of his legal theories, along with his ambivalent relationship with German Romanticism. Many interpreters have noted this duality: Is Schmitt the sternest critic of Romanticism or, perhaps, its last adherent? From this framework, reflections emerge on the connections between aesthetic form and political form in Schmitt's thought and beyond. Political theology underscores the emptiness of the political, simultaneously proclaiming the aesthetic essence of the political form. This element, influenced by Schmitt, persists in contemporary philosophical-political reflection. However, the aesthetic essence of the political form seems open to criticism. Can we leverage this disconcerting revelation to our advantage? What implications does this hold for politics and aesthetics itself
Pensiero radicale. Sulla prassi istituente
No full textL’Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica, diretto da Roberto Esposito, rappresenta uno spazio aperto per la riflessione filosofica sulla politica, e ne esplora lo statuto, le crisi, le potenzialità. A differenza di una ricerca storico-filologica sui concetti politici, o di a un’analisi empirica di natura sociologica e politologica sulla cronaca politica, il suo obiettivo primario è sviluppare nuove categorie concettuali in grado di aprire varchi in un orizzonte apparentemente chiuso. Contro la tendenza contemporanea a frammentare e scomporre la lotta politica in individualismi identitari, questo sesto numero è dedicato alla definizione e alla discussione di un pensiero radicale che, anziché contrapporre le parti, le articoli, combinando in maniera creativa ordine e conflitto. Nessun dualismo inconciliabile, dunque, ma una prospettiva rigorosamente filosofica per comprendere come le categorie di prassi e istituzione, apparentemente distanti, possano invece connettersi e integrarsi reciprocamente.
La prima sezione raccoglie gli interventi di affermati pensatori contemporanei come Roberto Esposito, Donatella Di Cesare, Christoph Menke, Giuseppe Duso, Yannis Stavrakakis e Camilla Vergara. La seconda è dedicata ai lavori del Seminario Permanente di Filosofia e Politica della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa e contiene i saggi di Laura Cremonesi, Mattia Di Pierro, Rita Fulco, Francesco Marchesi, Alberto Martinengo, Andrea Moresco, Matteo Polleri. Nell’Archivio, trova infine posto un testo inedito di Neal Wood
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