Table of contents
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
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