TY - JOUR
T1 - A sovereign act of negation
T2 - Schmitt's political theology and its ideal medievalism
AU - Monagle, Clare
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - This article argues that Carl Schmitt's political theology is premised on an idealised and totalising vision of the Middle Ages. That is, he casts modern political concepts as debased and corrupt in comparison to the proper politics of the Medieval Church, as he sees it. Drawing on a historically contextualized reading of the Fourth Lateran Council, which took place in 1215, the article's author argues that Schmitt's medieval comparison is much more complicatedthan he suggests. Schmitt's historical vision is, thus, a wilful projection of unity onto a diverse and distant past.
AB - This article argues that Carl Schmitt's political theology is premised on an idealised and totalising vision of the Middle Ages. That is, he casts modern political concepts as debased and corrupt in comparison to the proper politics of the Medieval Church, as he sees it. Drawing on a historically contextualized reading of the Fourth Lateran Council, which took place in 1215, the article's author argues that Schmitt's medieval comparison is much more complicatedthan he suggests. Schmitt's historical vision is, thus, a wilful projection of unity onto a diverse and distant past.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960335848&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14735784.2010.496589
DO - 10.1080/14735784.2010.496589
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960335848
VL - 51
SP - 115
EP - 127
JO - Culture, Theory and Critique
JF - Culture, Theory and Critique
SN - 1473-5784
IS - 2
ER -