On the Idea of Potency

Juridical and Theological Roots of the Western Cultural Tradition

Emanuele Castrucci (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1185-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Sweeping through the history of Western philosophy of law, Emanuele Castrucci deals with the metaphysical idea of potency as defined by Spinoza and Nietzsche, upsetting entrenched theories of jurisprudence. From classical Greek philosophy to Jewish biblical exegesis, via Christianity; from Aristotle's Metaphysics to its Arabic interpretations; from the genesis of natural law theory (Augustine, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Ockham), to Kant and Enlightenment natural law theory, to Carl Schmitt, Castrucci shows how philosophical rationalism has failed to contain absolute power in a juridical sense.

Emanuele Castrucci is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Siena. He taught previously at the Universities of Florence and Genoa. His studies mainly concern the domain of the history of legal and political ideas, which include such areas as the sources and forms of modern European legal thought, the reconstruction of the legal theory of the early 20th century German State and the theological roots of the cultural tradition of Western civilization. He has contributed to the diffusion in Italy of the thought of Carl Schmitt, editing the Italian edition of Der Nomos der Erde im Völkerrecht des Jus publicum Europaeum (1991).

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

Reihe/Serie	Encounters in Law & Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	4 black and white tables
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-4744-1185-1 / 1474411851
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-1185-1 / 9781474411851
Zustand	Neuware