Carl Schmitt – Ein Apokalyptiker der Gegenrevolution

A Mystic Conception of History: Negative Political Theology in Jacob Taubes

“…Schmitt had developed this notion beginning in several writings (mainly, but not exclusively, letters and diary entries) beginning in the 1940s and mentioned it briefly in Political Theology II, which appeared in 1970. 12 13 In that same 1985 newspaper article, Taubes linked the 1955 essay with a description of the overarching questions that had driven his entire career. The 1955 essay aimed to show that democratic institutions and their symbolic systems are not simply secularizations that fall away from traditional theism; rather, they are secularizations of heretical movements.…”