When God and State Don't Dominate: Pragmatism, Political Theology, and Democratic Authority

Authority is a normative status - not just power but legitimate power. But what distinguishes legitimate and illegitimate power? Combining recent pragmatist work in the philosophy of language with a Hegelian view of power and recognitive relations, I develop a model of authority rooted in non-domina...

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Main Author: Farneth, Molly (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2019]
In: Political theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 112-124
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 / Authority / Political theology / Pragmatism
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
TJ Modern history
VA Philosophy
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Pragmatism
B Authority
B Hegel
B Democracy
B Political Legitimacy
B relational organizing
B Recognition
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Summary:Authority is a normative status - not just power but legitimate power. But what distinguishes legitimate and illegitimate power? Combining recent pragmatist work in the philosophy of language with a Hegelian view of power and recognitive relations, I develop a model of authority rooted in non-dominating democratic practices. The result is a pragmatist political theology that is Hegelian in inspiration and radically democratic in practice.
ISSN:1743-1719
Contains:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1548958