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Article: The concept of the apolitical: German Jewish thought and Weimar political theology.(Essay)
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- September 22, 2007
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INTRODUCTION: WEIMAR POLITICAL THEOLOGY
RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN CONSIDERABLE DEBATE OVER THE CONCERNS of political theology and the question as to how the concepts and categories that inform political association may have derived historically from, or logically depend upon, prior concepts of religion. Debates over this question are partly normative: Does politics require theology, in the sense that theological concepts furnish the only possible warrant for our political commitments? Or, by contrast, does politics only come into its own if theology is dismissed? But the debate is also historical: Did politics only emerge as a transformation or worldly application ...