Das paradies in der politik ein kapitel negativer kosmologie

Abstract: The idea of a “paradise in politics” is an answer to the cosmogonic- anthropogonic problem that, through their bodies, the life of human beings has been shaped politically from the very beginning: all creation is a creation of bodies and bodies are power. All creation, furthermore, means separation, it emerges through a multiplicity of things and beings only. The conventional solution for the problem, in the realm of human beings, consists in forming societies out of a multiplicity of indivuals that remains as such. The solution of a “paradise in politics”, however, envisions a “healing” of creation through a bodily transmutation by which a world of bodies emerges that is freed from the problem of bodies: separation, power. The article discusses the negative cosmology with which all tales on a paradise in politics start. It shows the essential role of phantasy in the constitution of these tales, and elucidates the principal structural elements through which visions of a paradise in politics are built. A special attention is given to the parallelism between these visions and known religious thought, as in the case of the concepts of apokatastasis or perichoresis, for instance. Methodically, the article achieves a demonstration of its subject by an extensive presentation and analysis of two case studies: Rousseau’s vision of a “terrestrial paradise” and the attempt at “bodily redemption” put on the stage in 1968-69 by the “Living Theatre” Group with its performance “Paradise Now”.

Sapientia, 2003, Vol. LVIII, nº 213-214 (número completo)

Contenido: Das wahrheits-thema in der resten epoche der philosophie / Heribert Boeder – El prólogo del comentario de Santo Tomás de Aquino al Evangelio de San Juan / Nicolás Baisi – La pobreza como forma de marginalidad en la historia de la Orden Franciscana / Amelia Urrutibeheity de Di Pietro – El procedimiento per imaginationem en la física de Guillermo de Ockham / Olga L. Larre – El conocimiento divino del ente futuro contingente (2ª parte) / Gabriel Delgado – Sentido escatológico de la libertad: Santo Tomás de Aquino / Ciro E. Schmidt Andrade – El sentido ilativo en la obra del Cardenal Newman: un intento de superación del racionalismo inglés / Santiago Tomás Bellomo – La racionalidad moderna y la fenomenología de Husserl / Francisco Leocata – Valor, razón y subjetividad en Joseph De Finance / Juan Carlos Pablo Ballesteros – El bien en “Una teoría de la justicia” de J. Rawls – Notas y comentarios