From dionysus to the anti-Christ: Rene Girard's defense of christianity and Erik Peterson's closure of any political theology

Christoph Schmidt

doi:10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000122

From dionysus to the anti-Christ: Rene Girard's defense of christianity and Erik Peterson's closure of any political theology

Christoph Schmidt

Department of German Language and Literature

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Abstract

This essay is a reconstruction of Rene Girard's Christian apology in "I saw the Devil fall like Lightening." It develops Nietzsche's antithesis between Christ and Dionysius which Girard identifies as the antithesis of modernity as such. Against Girard's own alliance with Carl Schmitt the essay adopts the Trinitarian point of view suggested by the author, in order to show that it is Erik Peterson's "Trinitarian" critique of Carl Schmitt's political theology of sovereignty which could fulfill the "true" aim of the author in fact much better.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	101-115
Number of pages	15
Journal	Political Theology
Volume	16
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000122
State	Published - 1 Mar 2015

Keywords

Anti-Semitism
Carl Schmitt
Desire
Erik Peterson
Mimesis
Mimetic desire
Nietzsche
Political theology

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Religious studies
Sociology and Political Science

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From dionysus to the anti-Christ: Rene Girard's defense of christianity and Erik Peterson's closure of any political theology

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