Totalitarismustheorie gegen Kelsen und Schmitt: Eric Voegelins „politische Religionen“ als Kritik an Rechtspositivismus und politischer Theologie

Ooyen, Robert Chr. van

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“…In offering his anthropological definition of religion, Voegelin refers to Max Scheler's Die Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos [The Position of Man in the Cosmos] (1928). 42 Besides Scheler, 43 Voegelin cites the Jesuit Erich Przywara, 44 Alois Dempf 45 and others as his sources. He also speaks in this context of an 'intentio', a 'tension towards God', 46 in which one should locate one's own human existence and through which one discovers the supreme existence, God: 'Whenever a real thing can be recognised as a sacred thing in the religious experience, it becomes the most real thing of all, the realissimum.'…”

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Totalitarianisms as political religions in the 20th century

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2021

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Despite all contents of secularisation, a certain kind of religious element is important in every modern totalitarian system, like Communism or National Socialism. Therefore, totalitarian systems can be regarded as political religions. The following historical and philosophical reflections on the history of ideas of political religions will contain three major parts: First, early uses of the concept ‘political religion’ by Campanella and Clasen in the 16th and 17th centuries will be considered, then the interpretation of totalitarianism as political religion will be analysed, with regards to Eric Voegelin, Raymond Aron and several ramifications, and finally, the perspective of political messianism in Jacob Leib Talmon’s work will be discussed.

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Section: Eric Voegelinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Totalitarianisms as political religions in the 20th century

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2021

Pro Publico Bono - Magyar Közigazgatás

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Totalitarismustheorie gegen Kelsen und Schmitt: Eric Voegelins „politische Religionen“ als Kritik an Rechtspositivismus und politischer Theologie

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Totalitarianisms as political religions in the 20th century

Totalitarianisms as political religions in the 20th century

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