Can Democracy Emancipate Itself From Political Theology? Habermas and Lefort on the Permanence of the Theologico‐Political
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: Political theology seems hard to get around. Ever since Carl Schmitt famously asserted at the beginning of the 1920s that “all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts” political theorists have been grappling with the multiple and often uncanny ways in which essentially theological structures appear to re-emerge within contemporary political formations.
Source: Constellations
Author: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Institution: Columbia University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1583463458