A Political Theology of Democracy: immanence and messianism in Bloch, Habermas and Derrida

• In Event: Political Theologies and New Forms of Critique

Brief Overview

Schmitt never conceived a political theology of democracy based on immanence. Rather, he argued for dictatorship as a way to maintain transcendence. I hold that such a political theology of democracy based on immanence was articulated by Ernst Bloch

Author

• Miguel Vatter, Flinders University of South Australia