Article: Post-Enlightenment sources of political authority: Biblical atheism, political theology and the Schmitt-Strauss exchange

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Article: Post-Enlightenment sources of political authority: Biblical atheism, political theology and the Schmitt-Strauss exchange

Presented at a conference, "Political Theology as the Problem", in Poland in 2010, and now available in print as part of a journal special issue on "Carl Schmitt, Humanity and Rights: Early Modern Readings, Contemporary Appraisals": John P. McCormick (University of Chicago), "Post-Enlightenment sources of political authority: Biblical atheism, political theology and the Schmitt-Strauss exchange" ("History of European Ideas", 37 [2], June 2011: pp. 175-80).

Quote: "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' ... They considered Kantian reason and liberal politics ... as dangerous obfuscations of the necessity of political order - of the brute fact that human beings stand in need of 'being ruled,' as such."

For more on the conference the paper was presented at last year, refer back to: http://political-theology-agenda.blogspot.com/2010/06/political-theology-as-problem.html

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