Arcane geopolitics: Heidegger, Schmitt and the political theology of Gnosticism

Korf, Benedikt; Rowan, Rory

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102159

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“…Hier sehen wir einen besonders grossen Nachholbedarf. Zwar wird Martin Heidegger, wichtiger, aber auch politisch kompromittierter Denker einer der Hermeneutik und der Phänomenologie anverwandten Philosophie, gerne in der anglophonen Geographie rezipiert, meist aber ohne genauere Kenntnis des geistesgeschichtlichen oder politischen Horizonts seines Wirkens (Korf und Rowan, 2020;Hepach, 2021). Ein weiteres Desiderat wäre auch die Wiederaneignung der Kritischen Theorie der Frankfurter Schule, die vereinzelt zwar in der anglophonen und auch deutschsprachigen Geographie aufgegriffen wird, meist jedoch ohne deren religionsphilosophischen Reflektionshorizont, welcher über eine klassisch historisch-materialistische Rezeption hinausgeht.…”

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“…Anscheinend haben diese Autorinnen und Autoren weit weniger Hemmschwellen, sich eine theologische und religionsphilosophische Geistesgeschichte für eine dezidiert linke Theorie anzueignen, als es in der deutschsprachigen oder anglophonen Humangeographie üblich ist, wo diese Theoretiker sehr wohl rezipiert werden, deren religionsphilosophische Aneignungspraxis aber nicht weiter vertieft oder gegengelesen wird. Gleiches gilt auch für die Aneignung des Denkens Carl Schmitts, dessen theologische Grundierung (und gnostizistische Denkweise, die auch seinen tiefsitzenden Antisemitismus begründet) kaum berücksichtigt wird, wenn sein -politisch höchst problematisches -Denken für linke Theorie fruchtbar gemacht wird (Korf und Rowan, 2020). Diese fehlende "Musikalität" für religionsphilosophische Resonanzräume in diesen Theoriedebatten mag mit einer Marginalisierung der Religionsgeographie im Fach zusammenhängen (vgl.…”

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Tauchgänge zur German Theory

Korf

Rothfuß²,

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2022

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. In this editorial, we sketch the intellectual agenda for a themed issue on German Theory. We understand German Theory as a creative and dialogical space to engage a multitude of thought styles, common in the Geisteswissenschaften and to bring them into conversations with anglophone, as much as francophone, lusophone, Italian, Spanish and other forms of Theory. This agenda promotes a ‚provincialization‘ of anglophone Geography that is connecting these thought styles rather than confining them to bounded provinces in debate. „German Theory“, thus understood, is ultimately an entangled theory.

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Tauchgänge zur German Theory

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Rothfuß²,

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2022

Geogr. Helv.

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“…The Frankfurt School might qualify for that label, or phenomenology, or Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. Or worse, the denominator ‘German’ might simply end up as a proxy for ‘Nazi geographies’ (Powell, 2015: 830), tainting the theoretical interest in the work of Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt (Korf and Rowan, 2020).…”

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‘German Theory’: Cosmopolitan geographies, counterfactual histories and the (non)travel of a ‘German Foucault’

Korf

2021

Environ Plan D

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In this paper, I propose the notion of ‘German Theory’ to allude to the processes of translation and circulation of theoretical ideas discussed in the German humanities and German geography across and beyond the linguistic boundaries of its origin. However, these ideas did not travel, at least not to Anglophone geography. This paper investigates why not, and it maps out the lost theoretical potential that has been foregone as a result. ‘German Theory’ is thus read here as a potentiality that has not actualised. More specifically, this paper studies the reception of Foucault, as it emerged in two distinct territories of thought, each with their own interpretation: first, Kittler’s work on the materiality of discourse in German humanities, and second, the ‘discourse school’ in German geography. The latter’s insistence on the textuality of discourse disconnected their Foucault reception not only from Kittler’s, but equally so from ongoing debates in Anglophone geography. By reflecting on why the ‘German Foucault’ did not travel to Anglophone geography, I raise a speculative epistemological question about the im/potentiality of ‘German Theory’: could a more cosmopolitan theory have emerged from a circulation of these ideas had they travelled across linguistic boundaries?

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“…However, to analyze modern transformations of the political, it is necessary to turn to the experience of the political ontology of other epistemological paradigms. The most interesting and effective from a research point of view is the philosophical and theological doctrine of the Middle Ages and its categorical apparatus (Baume, 2009;Korf & Rowan, 2020).…”

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Theological foundations of the political power ontology

Schelkunov¹,

Volchkova²,

Krasnov³

2021

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The article is devoted to the study of the normative and theological foundations of political power origin and belongs to the field of political theology research. Despite the narrow field of research, the work is devoted to the study of a separate aspect of social life as a whole. The study of the theological foundations of political power was carried out within the framework of the neoinstitutional methodological paradigm, taking into account the data of hermeneutic analysis, which is an applied aspect of the work. Political power is considered by the authors in the framework of a broader aspect - the ontology of the social, as part of the fundamental layer of being. The authors, within the framework of the theological paradigm, considered the main ontological concepts of the political, analyzed the correlation of key political concepts - "power", "authority", and "sovereign". Various positions on understanding the essence of political power, as well as on the origin of this phenomenon in the historical and theological key are considered, the points of view of both domestic and foreign experts are studied.

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Arcane geopolitics: Heidegger, Schmitt and the political theology of Gnosticism

Cited by 6 publications

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Tauchgänge zur German Theory

Tauchgänge zur German Theory

‘German Theory’: Cosmopolitan geographies, counterfactual histories and the (non)travel of a ‘German Foucault’

Theological foundations of the political power ontology

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