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Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Hardcover)
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Roman Catholicism and Political Form (Hardcover)
Series: Global Perspectives in History and Politics
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According to G. L. Ulmen, translator of Roman Catholicism and
Political Form, this book is important not only for its content,
even more relevant at the end than at the beginning of this
century, but also for its author, one of the 20th century's most
seminal thinkers. While exploring and elaborating the meaning of
"political theology" in Germany in the 1920s, Carl Schmitt had
occasion to address the question of the relation between Roman
Catholicism and the modern--even post-modern--world. As Schmitt saw
it, the state, as the principal agent of secularization and the
supreme accomplishment of occidental rationalism, was the core
institution of the modern world, which lasted from the 16th to the
end of the 19th century, when the assumptions and concepts of the
jus publicum Europaeum and the Eurocentric epoch of world history
began to decline. Asserting that "all significant concepts of the
modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts,"
Schmitt felt the need to address the question of what political
form might replace the state. It was in this context that he wrote
Roman Catholicism and Political Form, which presupposes an affinity
not only between the Church and the state, but between Catholicism
and political thinking. Once the state began to lose its monopoly
of politics and, thereby, its legitimacy, Schmitt looked to the
other side of the occidental equation--the Catholic Church--in
search of a new form of the political. His argument proceeds from
the assumption that there is a structural identity between "the
metaphysical image of the world a particular age creates" and "the
form of a political organization."
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