- Title
- No life is bare, the ordinary is exceptional : Giorgio Agamben and the question of political ontology
- Creator
- Abbott, Mathew
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/155285
- Identifier
- vital:11222
- Identifier
- https://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia14/parrhesia14_abbott.pdf
- Identifier
- ISSN:1834-3287
- Abstract
- In his studies of the thought of Carl Schmitt, Heinrich Meier insists on a distinction he takes to be crucial for understanding the challenge posed by the jurist’s ‘lesson’: the difference between political philosophy and political theology. If political philosophy is the study of the political good carried out “entirely on the ground of human wisdom,”2 Meier argues, then political theology is the study of the same from the standpoint of a “faith in revelation.”3 In a trenchantly Straussian fashion, then, Meier understands the difference as far more than simply doctrinal, arguing instead that it “concerns the foundation and assertion of an existential position.”4 As he puts it: “What could be less immaterial than the distinction between a thought that wants to move and conceive itself in the obedience of faith and one that is not bound by any authority and spares nothing from its questions?”5
- Publisher
- Open Humanities Press
- Relation
- Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy Vol. , no. 14 (2012), p. 23-36
- Rights
- Copyright © Mathew Abbott. This article is published under under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits restricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. Commercial use is not permitted and modified material cannot be distributed.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Giorgio Agamben; Political ontology; Philosophy; 2203 Philosophy
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