On the idea of potency :: juridical and theological roots of the Western cultural tradition /: Emanuele Castrucci.

Name: On the idea of potency : juridical and theological roots of the Western cultural tradition / Emanuele Castrucci.
ISBN: 9781474411868

Castrucci, Emanuele,

On the idea of potency : juridical and theological roots of the Western cultural tradition / Emanuele Castrucci.

Castrucci, Emanuele, author.

2016

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Castrucci, Emanuele, author.

Title

On the idea of potency : juridical and theological roots of the Western cultural tradition / Emanuele Castrucci.

Imprint

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Description

1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Series

Encounters in law and philosophy.

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The logos of potency : a theoretical introduction
Logos of 'Potentia Dei'
'Potentia Ordinata' vs 'Potentia Absoluta'
Political theology reconsidered
Genealogies of constituent potency : Schmitt, Nietzsche, Spinoza
Corollaries I. On the origins of conventionalist political philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
Corollaries II. The problem of a political theology
Corollaries III. Rhetoric of ethical universalism : Jürgen Habermas and the dissolution of political realism.

Summary

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.

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English