Von den »Gesellschaftsproblemen der Gegenwart« zur »sozialistischen Entscheidung«: Paul Tillichs politisches Denken in der Weimarer Republik
At the end of the Weimar Republic, the leftist intellectual theologian, Paul Tillich, called for the formation of a combative alliance which would not only be constituted of the socialist workforce but also of the "revolutionary form of political romanticism" (the "leftist" wing...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2007
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 2007, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-127 |
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| Summary: | At the end of the Weimar Republic, the leftist intellectual theologian, Paul Tillich, called for the formation of a combative alliance which would not only be constituted of the socialist workforce but also of the "revolutionary form of political romanticism" (the "leftist" wing of the NSDAP). The aim of the alliance was to overcome the "middle-class spirit" of the "empty, soulless machine" of the Weimar Republic and to bring victory for the holistic utopia of a "society filled with meaning". Tillich's crisis-management suggestion differed significantly from the political blueprints of most other leftist intellectuals of the Weimar period. Tillich's striking openness towards political alliances with fractions of the "new nationalism" can above all be traced back to the foundation of his political thinking in and "ideology of life", which functioned as a bridge between left and rightwing ideologies. Tillich's highly abstract blueprints for a religious form of government (theonomy) underwent several transformations - from a religious federalism influenced by anarchism to a strongly Marxist oriented religious socialism. Yet there were hardly any changes in his anti-middleclass conviction of an penetration of the Weimar state with an "ideology of life" as an escape from the cold machinery of atomistic-rational modernity |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/kize.2007.20.1.97 |