True abandonment is felt only apart from all notions of law and destiny

Evidence

The parable pushes “the experience of abandonment to the extreme” and demonstrates that “only where the experience of abandonment is freed from every idea of law and destiny (including the Kantian form of law and law’s being in force without significance) is abandonment truly experienced as such.” What emerges is a new idea-one might even say a new “messianic idea”-one in which “the relation of abandonment is not a relation” and where “being together … does not have the form of relation.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 758

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense, paradigm-shifting formulation: relation itself is what is dissolved in abandonment — ‘being together without the form of relation’ is the sort of claim one sits with.
• QUESTION: What would a politics based on a factum without the form of relation actually look like? The passage gestures but leaves it open.