Theotopographies

How to think and circumscribe a toposwhich by its very definition can neither be fixed nor localized nor mapped, one-if there is one, just one, indivisible-that is neither geographically nor locally, socially or politically determinable, neither spatial nor situational nor institutional, neither extended nor void, neither here nor out there, but, in a certain sense, pure, beyond essence and finite measure, separated from everything and in that respect, following a traditional terminology, sacred, divine, ab-solute? How to hint at an abode where, according to the myths of mankind and the doctrines of positive religion, at one time or another, gods could be found, or where, for all eternity, the one God is said to be? Which figures of thought, which rhetorical tropes should be used to address this place, without 'address,' and thus non-place, removed at an immeasurable distance from the common places and public spaces that can be visited and revisited? Which locution or illocution, if any, or what perlocutionary force would be able to convey the meaning of this locus

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• Law without place

  Jari Kauppinen•Law and Critique•1998

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