Transubstantiation as a normative process

James Joyce and Carl Schmitt in 1922

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4903444
AutoresWojciech Engelking (0000-0002-4816-9193, University of Warsaw, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen181
Número1
Páginas34-55
Fecha de publicación2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07255136241240082
OpenAlexW4393984638
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas29

The thesis that legal norms are rooted in theology is not new. It is worth considering, however, to what extent not only singular norms, but also models of normativity are the structural representation of theological concepts. In this article, I consider transubstantiation as one of such ideas. I analyse its place in two political theologies published at the same time (in 1922): Carl Schmitt's Political Theology and James Joyce's Ulysses. I argue that both thinkers used the idea of transubstantiation as a normative mechanism to deal with anomie that encompassed European societies after the First World War

Epistemology · Normative · Theology · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Samuel Beckett and Modernism