In 1922 Carl Schmitt published his essay, Political Theology, arguing that all concepts of modern political thought are secularized theological concepts. In 1934, the same year that Schmitt released a revised edition of Political Theology, Henri-Xavier Arquillière published his essay L’augustinisme politique, arguing that all concepts of early medieval political thought are sacralized temporal concepts. To what extent have these powerful, tenacious theories of sacralization, secularization, and legitimation informed, and continue to shape, modern ideas about medieval politics and the concept of the political ?

Programm :

10:00-11:00 : Courtney Booker (University of British Columbia) – Sacred Kingdom, Penitential State: A Short History of L’augustinisme politique
11:00-12:00 : Geoffrey Koziol (University of California, Berkeley) – Necessity, Exception, and Post-Carolingian Justifications of Rebellion
Lunch

2:00-3:00 : Karl Ubl (University of Cologne) – Rise of Laicism, Aristotle and Political Augustinism: Revisiting the Conflict between Philip the Fair and the Papacy
Coffee break

3:30-4:30 : Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis University) – The Battle of Leviathan and Behemoth: Catastrophe and Jewish Messianic Vengeance from Isaac Abravanel to the Third Reich
4:30-5:30 : Lars Vinx (Bilkent University) – On Hobbes’s Definition of Religion

5:30 : Closing Remarks

Informations pratiques :
Ort : Cologne
Veranstaltungsort : Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies, Weyertal 59 (rear building), 50937 Köln
Veranstalter : Prof. Dr. Karl Ubl (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Courtney Booker (University of British Columbia)
Datum : 28.03.2015

Source : H-Soz-u-Kult