Vol. 40 No. 1 (2020): Patterns of Contemporary Nihilism
Articles

Potentially, Relationality and the Problem of Actualisation

Andrew Benjamin
University of Technology, Sydney

Published 2020-06-01

Keywords

  • political theology,
  • law,
  • life,
  • sovereignty,
  • nihilism

How to Cite

Potentially, Relationality and the Problem of Actualisation. (2020). Teoria. Rivista Di Filosofia, 40(1), 115-124. https://doi.org/10.4454/teoria.v40i1.92

Abstract

This lecture outlines elements central to the project of rethinking the concerns of political theology. The lecture seeks to integrate that thinking into the development of a philosophy of life; life defined by an already given relation to the law. Maintaining the law, which is the stance against nihilism, whilst complicating the way law is understood, involves a shift in how sovereignty would itself then be conceived.