Post-Enlightenment sources of political authority
Biblical atheism, political theology and the Schmitt–Strauss exchange
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11346146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John P Mccormick (0000-0001-7305-186X, a University of Chicago , Chicago , IL , United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-180 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2010.11.009 |
| OpenAlex | W2000678718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This essay reevaluates the Weimar writings of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss, specifically, their intellectual efforts to replace the political authority of Kantian liberalism with, respectively, a ‘political theology’ and ‘Biblical atheism’ derived from the thought of early-modern state theorists like Hobbes and Spinoza. Schmitt and Strauss each insisted that post-Kantian Enlightenment rationality was unraveling into a way of thinking that violently rejected ‘form’ of any kind, fixated myopically on material things and lacked any conception of the external constraints that invariably condition the possibilities of philosophy, morality and politics. They considered Kantian reason and liberal politics to pose serious threats to ‘genuine’ expressions of rationality and as dangerous obfuscations of the necessity of political order—of the brute fact that human beings stand in need of ‘being ruled,’ as such
Atheism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Liberalism · Morality · Political philosophy · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Rationality · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |