Context for a critique of political theology

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Michelbach, Philip and Poe, Andrew. (2022). Context for a critique of political theology. Theory and Event. 25(2), pp. 444-469. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0019
AuthorsMichelbach, Philip and Poe, Andrew
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Carl Schmitt famously charged that "All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts…" We contend that this argument has not been taken seriously enough in its historical, systematic, or tendentious intent. Using his 1956 essay "Hamlet oder Hecuba," we offer a contextualization of Schmitt's late political theology. Tracing the sectarian elements revealed here against their alternatives, we demonstrate the overriding interpretive importance of Schmitt's radical Roman Catholic political theology: the character of Schmitt's thinking was always already religiously sectarian.

Keywordspolitical theology; Schmitt; modernity; Shakespeare; Luther; sectarianism
Year2022
JournalTheory and Event
Journal citation25 (2), pp. 444-469
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISSN1092-311X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0019
Page range444-469
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Deposited11 Jul 2023
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