Symbolische Praxis und normative Struktur. Die Krise der politischen Repräsentation in der Perspektive einer "Soziologie des Sakralen"
The paper takes its starting point from Paula Diehl's study Das Symbolische, das Imaginäre und die Demokratie (2015) which examines the connection between the normative structures and the symbolic practice of a democratically constituted political polity. A crisis of the political is to be unde...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 172-189 |
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Diehl, Paula 1970-, Das Symbolische, das Imaginäre und die Demokratie
/ Representation (Politics)
/ The Holy
/ Religious sociology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | The paper takes its starting point from Paula Diehl's study Das Symbolische, das Imaginäre und die Demokratie (2015) which examines the connection between the normative structures and the symbolic practice of a democratically constituted political polity. A crisis of the political is to be understood as the result and expression of a disturbance in this reciprocal condition of normative structure and symbolic practice of the political community. In her description of the conditional relationship between normative structure and symbolic practice, Diehl places special emphasis on the aesthetic dimension of political representation. By contrast, Diehl largely rejects the meaning of religion for the symbolic dimension of political representation. Therefore, I would like to draw contrasting attention to the project of a "Sociology of the Sacred", as developed by Georges Bataille and his colleagues in the thirties, following Emile Durkheim's sociology of religion. This approach is useful to emphasize the importance of religious content for the symbolic dimension of political representation. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-2807 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14220/jrat.2018.4.2.172 |