ABSTRACT
Impolitique constructs its critique, is a combination of a genealogy and a notion of secularisation. The presentation which Roman Catholicism and Political Form offers of this intertwinement is Schmitt's particular appropriation of Weber's notion of secularisation. The double displacement of Weber and Schmitt, through this notion of 'neutralisation-secularisation', is one which returns law and the juridical apparatus to its origin in the sociology of Weber. This law manifests this internal contradiction through law's detachment from a theological origin which is combined with a demand that it 'must present itself, in order to have effective value, as universal, immutable and transcendent'. The double displacement of Weber and Schmitt, through this notion of 'neutralisation-secularisation', is one which returns law and the juridical apparatus to its origin in the sociology of Weber. Esposito, by the further displacement effected through the introduction of Hobbes, overlays the aporia of the 'hyper-political' on the realm of positive law.
