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Divine Democracy - Political Theology after Carl Schmitt (Paperback)
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Divine Democracy - Political Theology after Carl Schmitt (Paperback)
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How secular are the political and legal concepts that underpin
liberal democracy? Carl Schmitt first coined the term political
theology to show the dependency of modern western jurisprudence and
political science on Christian theological discourse, and in so
doing criticized the claim to religious neutrality of liberal
institutions. In this book, Miguel Vatter reconstructs how and why
the discourse of political theology was adopted and repurposed by
anti-Schmittian thinkers, from Eric Voegelin through Jacques
Maritain and Ernst Kantorowicz to Jurgen Habermas, to bolster the
legitimacy of liberal democratic government. The book traces the
way in which crucial political concepts for liberal
democracy-including sovereignty, representation, government,
constitutionalism, human rights, and public reason-are transformed
when they become part of a discourse on political theology.
Vatter's aim is to provide an intellectual history of political
theology in the 20th century. His study reveals the overdetermined
role that religion plays in contemporary democratic political and
legal theory as an ultimate source of legitimacy for government and
as wellspring for revolutionary aspirations.
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