The Best of All Possible Worlds: Gunther Teubner’s Theodicy

(A Reading of Gunther Teubner’s Essay “The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values”)

Abstract

The present contribution offers a critical reading of Gunther Teubner's text “The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values”. On the basis of this text, Gunther Teubner's theodicy, i.e. his doctrine of the rotten and irrational foundations of modern society and the normative way of dealing with them, is elaborated and embedded genealogically. The article then ends with remarks on the “katechontic” role that, according to Gunther Teubner, law has to play in a “fallen” society.