The Unevenness of Political Theology

Those who agree that Carl Schmitt was correct to prefer to political theology to liberalism nonetheless need to develop an account of how an authority structure can sustain itself without imposing an ideology on those over whom it rules. This article suggests that one possibility forward is found in...

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Published in:Political theology
Subtitles:Roundtable: How Theological is Political Theology?
Main Author: Kavka, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
In: Political theology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Taubes, Jacob 1923-1987 / Political theology / Liberalism / Democracy / Mysticism
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CG Christianity and Politics
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Mysticism
B Rufus Jones
B Jacob Taubes
B Carl Schmitt
B Political Theology
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary:Those who agree that Carl Schmitt was correct to prefer to political theology to liberalism nonetheless need to develop an account of how an authority structure can sustain itself without imposing an ideology on those over whom it rules. This article suggests that one possibility forward is found in the mystical political theology of Jacob Taubes's 1955 essay “On The Symbolic Order of Modern Democracy,” since that essay posits a political body in which sovereignty is distributed, without forcing that distribution in an arbitrary manner.
Item Description:Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2018"
ISSN:1743-1719
Contains:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1520847