Sovereignty and eschatology: the reordering of the apocalypse in Carl Schmitt's political theology

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dc.contributor.authorJing, Lingyu
dc.contributor.supervisorGlezos, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-02T23:44:50Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-05-02
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe thesis examines the relationship between sovereignty and eschatology in Carl Schmitt’s political theology. Schmitt is seen as an important political theorist of sovereignty but the contemporary understanding of his sovereignty lacks an eschatological dimension. As a political theologian, Schmitt notices that sovereignty and eschatology are in tension: if the apocalypse is near, the earthly sovereign order has no legitimacy to exist. According to him, this tension was rooted in Christianity but radicalized by 20th century Marxism which destructs the sovereign order by extremizing the class contradiction to negate the class enemy and creating a universal unity of humanity at the end of human history. This thesis interprets Schmitt’s concept of sovereignty as a response to the Marxist apocalypticism and argues that Schmitt’s political theology is a project to revive the sovereign as a Katechontic power which perpetuates but simultaneously restrains enmity to delay the apocalypse and continually legitimate sovereignty as the earthly order.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/13937
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectCarl Schmitten_US
dc.subjectsovereigntyen_US
dc.subjecteschatologyen_US
dc.subjectthe apocalypseen_US
dc.subjectthe Katechonen_US
dc.titleSovereignty and eschatology: the reordering of the apocalypse in Carl Schmitt's political theologyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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