Monateri on Political Sublime and the Exotic Birth of European Sovereignty.

Political Sublime. 

Heterodoxy and Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity

The aim of this paper, held at the meeting of the Harvard International Group for Law and Politics (IGLP), is to show the demonological origin of modernity, which entails a "sublime" aspect of the political exceeding the words by which we try to capture its nature.
My paper proceeds using the lexicon of the Italian Theory (Agamben and Esposito) to analyse the parallel between King James I and Jean Bodin. Both authors developed the modern conceptions of political sovereignty and both were engaged in witch-trials, writing extensive treatises on the matter. This parallel locates the question of heterodoxy/orthodoxy in the very threshold of modernity.
My tentative conclusion is the possibility of a link between the politicization of the magic world and the genealogy of modernity, reversing, in a way, the standard approach of political theology in favour of a demonological archeology of modern European concepts of law and politics.

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Séminaire: PG Monateri - Délit poltique de sorcellerie Angleterre XVI-XVII siècles - Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

Dans le cadre du séminaire « Le délit politique »,  nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir

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Pier Giuseppe Monateri

Professeur de droit privé comparé à l'Université de Turin

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Le délit politique de sorcellerie en Angleterre

sous Elisabeth 1ère et Jacques 1er

  

salle 7

105 bd Raspail

Jeudi 5 Mars 2015

15h à 17h

CENJ "Yan Thomas" - 105 Boulevard Raspail - 75006 PARIS - 01.53.63.51.68

Stasis in Moltmann e Schmitt

Stasis in Moltmann e Schmitt
Pier Giuseppe Monateri

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Abstract

The essay introduces an original interpretation of Moltmann’s thought on Christian kenosis, according to the fundamental critical method known as ‘close reading’. On this ground, the Author brings to the surface the complex bulk of literary quotations which give substance to a specific passage in Moltmann’s work “The Crucified God”. Quotations become an intellectual device apt to produce meaning through its proper deferral and suspension. Within this framework, the Author’s main purpose is to put at the centre of the scene the explicit reference made by Moltmann to C. Schmitt’s concept of stasis, in order to explain the self-emptying of God even in a political perspective, as a kind of internal battle within divinity. The theological canon (Christian kenosis as moulded by Moltmann) is conceptually linked to the political anti-canon (stasis and exception as defined by C. Schmitt). In this perspective the structural relationship between Theology and Politics, usually epitomized by the synthetic expression of ‘political theology’, comes to be re-substantiated.

Download: COSMO, 2013, at
http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/443

Keyword

kenosis; stasis; Moltmann; Schmitt; political theology; close reading; interpretation; canon; anti-canon; quotation

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Law and Incarnation: Messianism as State of Exception

Riflessioni sul Messianesimo come Stato di Eccezione

In this paper, written in italian, Monateri tries to interpret Jesus teachings in the context of the beginning of a cosmic state of exception when, in accordance with traits of the Second Temple ideology, the final battle between God and his enemy is going to start.

In such a context the Law reincarnate itself into the figure/body of the Sovereign, the Lord, instead of being excarnated as it has been in the Book.

Thus the Lord as a nomos empsuchos (a living law) can suspend and renew the law.

Even the dramatic event of the Cross can be seen as the entrance by suffering of the Lord into the Enemy's realm and his coming back as a winner.

Author suggests that the models behind such packaging of ideas are Egyptian, and strongly connected with the royal political theology of Alexander the Great as a King and a Savior.

From this standpoint it was certainly Paul (and so the Church) and not James to be on the right side in interpreting Jesus teachings.

With the Event of the Cross the world entered into a permanent state of exception, but the outcome of the final battle has already been determined by that event.

As Ted Sorensen said once: war is something you win or loose in the Temple long before it is actually fought.

Published in the Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin

Legge e incarnazione

Riflessioni sul Messianesimo come Stato di Eccezione

Pubblicato sul Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin