The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its
meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories,
which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely
radical perspective. The impolitical is not the opposite of the
political but rather its outer limit: the border from which we
might glimpse a trajectory away from all forms of political
theology and the depoliticizing tendencies of a completed
modernity. The book's reconstruction of the impolitical
lineage-which is anything but uniform-begins with the extreme
conclusions reached by Carl Schmitt and Romano Guardini in their
reflections on the political and then moves through a series of
encounters between several great twentieth-century texts: from
Hannah Arendt's On Revolution to Hermann Broch's The Death of
Virgil, to Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power; from Simone Weil's The
Need for Roots to Georges Bataille's Sovereignty to Ernst Junger's
An der Zeitmauer. The trail forged by this analysis offers a
defiant counterpoint to the modern political lexicon, but at the
same time a contribution to our understanding of its categories.
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