Witchcraft, Statecraft, Mancraft: On the Demonological Foundations of Sovereignty
Questions of sovereignty remain central to political theology, yet the role played by demonology in sovereignty’s construction has yet to be closely examined. This article addresses this omission by exploring the relation between the phantasmatic figures of the “sovereign” and the “witch” in the wor...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Political theology
Год: 2020, Том: 21, Выпуск: 6, Страницы: 530-549 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Bodin, Jean 1529-1596
/ Суверенитет (мотив)
/ Колдовство (мотив)
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AZ Новая религия KAH Новое время ZC Общая политика |
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Sovereignty
B Witchcraft B gender and queer theory B political demonology B Jean Bodin |
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| Итог: | Questions of sovereignty remain central to political theology, yet the role played by demonology in sovereignty’s construction has yet to be closely examined. This article addresses this omission by exploring the relation between the phantasmatic figures of the “sovereign” and the “witch” in the work of Jean Bodin (1530-96). Early modern concepts of “witchcraft” and its prosecution have a constitutive relation to (theo)political sovereignty, modern gender relations, and the birth of the nation-state. Reading Bodin’s work on witchcraft alongside those on sovereignty, tolerance, and the household, I argue that the demonological witch forms a self-consolidating other at the foundation of modern constructions of sovereignty, tolerance, and the (cishetero)normative family - an excess or absence that reinforces and destabilizes gendered, sexual, political, juridical, and religious hierarchies that continue to influence the present. In doing so, I demonstrate that sovereignty rests on a demonological foundation. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1759278 |