Violence and the Return of the Religious
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Violence and the Return of the Religious
Original language description
René Girard speaks of the return of the religious as a "return of the sacred... in the form of violence." This violence was inherent in the original "sacrificial system," which deflected communal violence onto the victim. In this article, I argue that there is a double return of the sacred. With the collapse of the original sacrificial system, the sacred first reappears in the legal order. When this loses its binding claim, it reappears in the political order. Here, my claim will be that Carl Schmitt's conception of the political is not simply structurally similar to Girard's conception of the sacrificial system. It is actually a manifestation of this. In this political return of the religious, the religious and the political systems are conflated. What prevents us from seeing this is the self-concealment that is essential to the sacrificial act, a self-concealment that also characterizes its twofold return.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Continental Philosophy Review
ISSN
1387-2842
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
53
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3, Special Issue S1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
271-285
UT code for WoS article
000565878500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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