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Trump and Political Theology: Unmaking Truth and Democracy

Trump and Political Theology: Unmaking Truth and Democracy

Eller, Jack David
Slade, Darren M.

Paperback

Religion General General Political ScienceSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $23.49

ISBN10: 0578807300
ISBN13: 9780578807300
Publisher: Gcrr Press
Published: Nov 19 2020
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

For millennia, a fundamental question of culture and law has been the relationship between religion and ruler, or more recently between church and state. Although the term political theology was not always known, the question remained and was answered in various ways: theocracy, the divine right of kings, the mandate of heaven, the rule of jurists, and so forth. Almost a century ago, Carl Schmitt revived political theology and reshaped it into a less theological and more political subject with his famous notions of sovereignty and the exception. Schmitt highlighted the eternal struggle between power or authority on the one hand and positive law and political institutions on the other, arguing that law can never entirely legitimize or constrain power or authority and that the real site and source of law is the moment of exception and of the decision.

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