"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...
| 发表在: | Political theology |
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| 语言: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Political theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Blumenberg, Hans 1920-1996
/ Schmitt, Carl 1888-1985
/ 政治神学
/ Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
/ Napoleon, I., Frankreich, Kaiser 1769-1821
/ 会晤
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history VA Philosophy ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Schmitt
B Polytheism B Blumenberg B Goethe B Gnosticism B Foucault B 说真话 |
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| 总结: | 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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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 20, numbers 5/6, August-September 2019" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2019.1618597 |