Wednesday, March 7, 2018
LAW n+mystic and it's non-other
" The conflicts of mystically oriented individuals cannot
be resolved juridically and they do not find in law a place where
they can debate their differences or find an agreement. Instead
Cacciari turns to Simone Weil’s attack on theology’s dependence
upon Roman law and to Benjamin’s notion of the messianic in
order to align mysticism with a non- juridical view of justice.
The mystical view of justice as an uncontainable break with the
course of the world is irreconcilably opposed to any political
theological attempt juridically to compose the differences
between the transcendent and the mundane, with Cacciari
insisting upon the ‘antidialectical nature of mysticism’ and its
affinity to ‘everything that exceeds the norm, the linearizing violence of the law’ (Cacciari 2009"
from howard cagill's introduction to m. caccari, The Withholding Powler, on political theology and specifically on the concept of the katechon.
also this, glossing previous article by cacciari:
'On the Theological and Mystical Dimensions of the Modern Political’
"Cacciari’s essay seemed to arrive at a revolutionary gnosticism whose paradoxes
resembled those already diagnosed by Jacob Taubes, while
remaining aware that this made its own oppositions very
vulnerable to dialectical capture. After a further decade of work,
Cacciari’s Dell’Inizio emerged as the extended effort to lessen if
not avoid entirely the risk of dialectical capture facing the
opposition of political theology and mystical, gnostic revolution
embodied in the oppositions of ‘Law and Justice’. This entailed a break with the progressive philosophy of the ages of the Father, Son and spirit originating in the philosophy of history of the
Calabrian Abbot and mystic Joachin di Fiore that would prove
a powerful current in the radical philosophy of the twentieth
century."
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