From Dionysus to the Anti-Christ: Rene Girard,'s Defense of Christianity and Erik Peterson's Closure of Any Political Theology

This essay is a reconstruction of Rene Girard's Christian apology in "I saw the Devil fall like Lightening." It develops Nietzsche's antithesis between Christ and Dionysius which Girard identifies as the antithesis of modernity as such. Against Girard's own alliance with Car...

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Main Author: Schmidt, Christoph 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2015
In: Political theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-115
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900 / Reception / Girard, René 1923-2015 / Christianity / Anthropology
B Peterson, Erik 1890-1960 / Trinity / Political theology
B Girard, René 1923-2015
Further subjects:B Erik Peterson
B Anti-semitism
B Nietzsche
B Desire
B Mimesis
B mimetic desire
B Carl Schmitt
B Political Theology
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