Existential Choice as Repressed Theism: Jean-Paul Sartre and Giorgio Agamben in Conversation
This article brings Sartre's notion of existential authenticity, or sovereign decisionism, into conversation with the work of contemporary political theorist Giorgio Agamben, who argues that sovereign decisionism is the repressed theological foundation of authoritarian governments. As such, the...
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Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-12 |
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Authenticity
B Sovereignty B Jean-Paul Sartre B Giorgio Agamben B contemporary continental philosophy B Existentialism |
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| 520 | |a This article brings Sartre's notion of existential authenticity, or sovereign decisionism, into conversation with the work of contemporary political theorist Giorgio Agamben, who argues that sovereign decisionism is the repressed theological foundation of authoritarian governments. As such, the article seeks to accomplish two goals. The first is to show that Sartre's depiction of sovereign decisionism directly parallels how modern democratic governments conduct themselves during a state of emergency. The second is to show that Sartre's notion of existential authenticity models, what Agamben calls, secularized theism. Through an ontotheological critique of Sartre's professed atheism, the article concludes that an existential belief in sovereign decision represses, rather than profanes, the divine origins of authoritarian law. I frame the argument with a reading of Sartre's 1943 play The Flies, which models the repressed theological underpinnings of Sartre's theory. | ||
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