The Unevenness of Political Theology |
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Authors: | Martin Kavka |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USAmkavka@fsu.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThose 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. |
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Keywords: | Carl Schmitt Jacob Taubes political theology Rufus Jones mysticism |
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