The Theological Turn of Contemporary Critical Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11051043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Cistelecan (0000-0002-9878-5525, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2014 |
| Issue | 167 |
| Pages | 8-26 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0614167008 |
| OpenAlex | W2327590269 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Closing the Circle of Political Theology In his famous commemorative piece on Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes highlighted the radical divergence between their politico-theological projects: “I ask after the political potentials in the theological metaphors, just as Schmitt asks after the theological potential of legal concepts.”1 Two completely opposed understandings of the same “political theology” thus stand out: one that proceeds from the political and legal concepts, in order to unearth the theological dimension concealed in them; the other, moving in the opposite direction, from the “theological metaphors” to the political potentials that they contain. Can one apply these opposite approaches
Closing (real estate · Dimension (graph theory · Divergence (linguistics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Order (exchange · Political philosophy · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |