Public and Private Responsibility: Christianity and Politics in Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political
This essay explores the relationship between political realism and Christian faith by reading Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political against St. Augustine’s The City of God. The author stresses the public/private binary as the crucial concept for analysis. After rejecting the viability of polit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2011
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2011, Volume: 60, Issue: 4, Pages: 561-579 |
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Volltext (JSTOR) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This essay explores the relationship between political realism and Christian faith by reading Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political against St. Augustine’s The City of God. The author stresses the public/private binary as the crucial concept for analysis. After rejecting the viability of political realism with Christianity, the author draws upon Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death to outline a different possibility for the coexistence of Christianity and politics. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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