From Dionysus to the Anti-Christ: Rene Girard,'s Defense of Christianity and Erik Peterson's Closure of Any Political Theology
This essay is a reconstruction of Rene Girard's Christian apology in "I saw the Devil fall like Lightening." It develops Nietzsche's antithesis between Christ and Dionysius which Girard identifies as the antithesis of modernity as such. Against Girard's own alliance with Car...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Political theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
/ Reception
/ Girard, René 1923-2015
/ Christianity
/ Anthropology
B Peterson, Erik 1890-1960 / Trinity / Political theology B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Erik Peterson
B Anti-semitism B Nietzsche B Desire B Mimesis B mimetic desire B Carl Schmitt B Political Theology |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This essay is a reconstruction of Rene Girard's Christian apology in "I saw the Devil fall like Lightening." It develops Nietzsche's antithesis between Christ and Dionysius which Girard identifies as the antithesis of modernity as such. Against Girard's own alliance with Carl Schmitt the essay adopts the Trinitarian point of view suggested by the author, in order to show that it is Erik Peterson's "Trinitarian" critique of Carl Schmitt's political theology of sovereignty which could fulfill the "true" aim of the author in fact much better. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000122 |
