Political Theology and Secularization in the XXth Century

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

a) Lectures;

b) Reading and commentary of texts;

c) Discussion and argumentation;

d) Autonomous reflection and active oral and written participation will be encouraged.

Learning Outcomes

Objectives:

a) To be comprehensively familiar with the theme of Political Theology;

b) To formulate and discuss at a high philosophical level thesis on the proposed subject;

c) Writing a paper able to philosophically discuss the subject.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Political Theology: the concept and the meaning

a. Political Theology as a sociological category

b. Political Theology as a political category

2. Modernity and Secularization

a. The two Carl Schmitt’s thesis on Political Theology

b. The polemic concerning the analogy between theological and political concepts

c. The polemic concerning the legitimacy of modernity

3. Secularization and Political Theology

a. A theological approach of Political Theology

b. A political approach of Political Theology.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Agamben, Giorgio, Il tempo che resta, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2000.

Benjamin, Walter, “Theologisch-politisches Fragment”, Gesammelte Schriften, II-1, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1991, pp. 203-204;

Blumenberg, Hans, Die Legitimität der Neuzeit, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1999;

Löwith, Karl. Weltgeschichte und Heilsgeschichte. Die theologischen Voraussetzungen der Geschichtsphilosophie.

Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1953.

Lübbe, Hermann, Säkularisierung: Geschichte eines ideenpolitischen Begriffs, Freiburg, Alber, 2003.

Marramao, Giacomo, Cielo e terra: genealogia della secolarizzazione, Roma, Laterza, 1994;

Monod, Jean-Claude, La querelle de la sécularisation, Paris, Vrin, 2002;

Scattola, Merio, Teologia Política, trad. José Jacinto Correia Serra, Lisboa, Ed.70, 2009;

Schmitt, Carl, Politische Theologie: Vier Kapitel zur Lehre der Souveränität, Berlim, Duncker & Humblot, 1996.