Epilogue: Form, Decision, Myth. On the Form of a European Civilization

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

I. Political Physicalism?

II. The Indecision of the Libertine. History of Decisionistic Thought and Theory of the Modern State

III. A Baroque Creature

IV Ekstatische Sozietat. Robert Musil’s “The Man without Qualities”

V. Moosbrugger and the Law

VI. Divine Violence and Disruption of the Theological Form. On the young Walter Benjamin

VII. Naphta, or a katechon for Europe

VIII. A Critique of Normative Ethics. Some motifs in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Law

IX. Paul Valery’s Plato

X. Outlines of Conventionalist Ethics

Epilogue: Form, Decision, Myth. On the Form of a European Civilization

Notes

Bibliography

Index