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2 The Tragicity of the Political: A Note on Carlo Galli's Reading of Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba
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1. Survivals 1. Survivals
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2. The “De-Christianizing” of the French Seventeenth Century: Auerbach, Krüger, and Krauss 2. The “De-Christianizing” of the French Seventeenth Century: Auerbach, Krüger, and Krauss
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3. Pascal and Christian Resistance: Auerbach, Krauss, and Guardini 3. Pascal and Christian Resistance: Auerbach, Krauss, and Guardini
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4. Conclusion 4. Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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11 Striking the French Match: Jean Bodin, Queen Elizabeth, and the Occultation of Sovereign Marriage
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Abstract
This chapter shows how scholarly work on political theology in post-World War I Germany enacted and enabled resistance to the Nazi state. The focus is on Auerbach's shifting engagement with Pascal, beginning with his 1933 monograph, The French Audience in Seventeenth-Century France, and continuing up through his 1941 essay, “The Triumph of Evil.” It is argued that Auerbach initially saw Pascal as part of a defanged intelligentsia produced by what he calls de-Christianization, the separation of the City of God from the City of Man that leaves humans in a world of force with no recourse to justice. But as he was rendered an increasingly passive political actor by the Nazi regime, Auerbach came to see Pascal making an argument for the necessary, if also unpredictable, intrusion of the City of God into the world of human force through the figure of the just individual who resists temporal injustice. Moreover, at issue for Auerbach was the Kulturkampf—the attempt before World War I to create a politically unified Germany through German Lutheranism—and its afterlife in Nazi Germany. The very opposite of a Schmittian version of political theology in which theological concepts are embodied in the person of the sovereign, for Auerbach political theology served as a means by which he could give account of himself and of intellectual activity in mid twentieth-century Europe.
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