"Only a God Can Resist a God." Political Theology between Polytheism and Gnosticism
Sovereignty - based on a claim to irresistible authority - and "speaking truth to power" (or parrhesia) are evidently opposed and yet they seem to have a strange affinity with one another, at least if one follows Foucault's last lectures on this motif of political philosophy. This art...
| Pubblicato in: | Political theology |
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Political theology
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| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Blumenberg, Hans 1920-1996
/ Schmitt, Carl 1888-1985
/ Teologia politica
/ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
/ Napoleon, I., Frankreich, Kaiser 1769-1821
/ Incontro
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | CG Cristianesimo e politica KAH Età moderna KAJ Età contemporanea VA Filosofia ZC Politica generale |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Parrhesia
B Schmitt B Polytheism B Blumenberg B Goethe B Gnosticism B Foucault |
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| Riepilogo: | Sovereignty - based on a claim to irresistible authority - and "speaking truth to power" (or parrhesia) are evidently opposed and yet they seem to have a strange affinity with one another, at least if one follows Foucault's last lectures on this motif of political philosophy. This article revisits Hans Blumenberg's reconstruction of the meeting between the German poet Goethe and the French emperor Napoleon as an example of a parrhesiastic encounter between philosophy and tyranny. The article situates Blumenberg's discussion of Goethe's pantheism and polytheism in the context of his ongoing polemic with Schmitt's conceptions of sovereignty and political theology. It argues that while both Blumenberg and Schmitt seek to offer responses to the Gnostic rejection of worldly power, a reading of Goethe in light of the discourse on parrhesia or frank speech lately revived by Foucault allows for the articulation of republican response to Gnosticism. |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 20, numbers 5/6, August-September 2019" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2019.1618597 |