ABSTRACT
This chapter expands the author's argument for the importance of addressing political problems politically through a critique of moralism, fascism, and projects of proffering rule over politics. The portrait offered begins with the tension between permanence and change in antiquity and their transformation into contemporary forms of decadence in which secularized theodicies follow in portraits of capitalism, “right” and “left,” and even metatheoretical reflections such as postmodern avowals in which even contemporary fascism claim to be antiessentialist.
