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Roman Catholicism and Political Form

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The relationship between economic and political thinking has reached a crisis at the end of the 20th century. Already at the beginning of this century, in Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Carl Schmitt juxtaposed a juridical interpretation of religion oriented to the political sphere to Max Weber's sociological interpretation oriented to the economic sphere in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

According to G. L. Ulmen, translator of Roman Catholicism and Political Form
Asserting that all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts, Schmitt felt the need to address the question of what political form might replace the state. It was in this context that he wrote Roman Catholicism and Political Form, which presupposes an affinity not only between the Church and the state, but between Catholicism and political thinking. Once the state began to lose its monopoly of politics and, thereby, its legitimacy, Schmitt looked to the other side of the occidental equation-the Catholic Church-in search of a new form of the political. His argument proceeds from the assumption that there is a structural identity between the metaphysical image of the world a particular age creates and the form of a political organization.

List of contents










Introduction by G. L. Ulmen
Note on the Translation by G. L. Ulmen
Roman Catholicism and Political Form
Appendix: The Visibility of the Church: A Scholastic Consideration
Index


About the author

Carl Schmitt

G. L. ULMEN is a senior editor for Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought. Dr. Ulmen has published widely on juridical and political issues in both Europe and the United States. His latest book is Politischer Mehrwert: Eine Studie über Max Weber und Carl Schmitt (1991).

Summary

While exploring and elaborating the meaning of "political theology" in Germany in the 1920s, Carl Schmitt had occasion to address the question of the relation between Roman Catholicism and the post-modern world. This work presupposes an affinity between Catholicism and political thinking.

Product details

Authors Carl Schmitt, G. Ulmen, G. L. Ulmen
Assisted by G. L. Ulmen (Editor), G. L. Ulmen (Translation)
Publisher Praeger
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2019
 
EAN 9780313301056
ISBN 978-0-313-30105-6
No. of pages 114
Dimensions 145 mm x 222 mm x 10 mm
Weight 285 g
Series Contributions in Political Sci
Contributions in Political Science
Contributions in Political Sci
Contributions in Political Science
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas

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