De la magie la suveranitate. I’d like to suggest that we can recover some of the original impulse and continuing interest of The King’s Two Bodies if we see Kantorowicz positioning himself between Schmitt’s political theology and Cassirer’s critique of existential historicism. From Schmitt he takes the idea of the secular appropriation of theological concepts, as well as the idea of the congruence of theological or metaphysical ideas and political forms within a given historical moment. From Cassirer, he adopts the persona of the rational, secular demystifier of historical and contemporary myth. But unlike either Schmitt (who was hostile to the merely aesthetic) or Cassirer (who was critical of the modern political use of myth), Kantorowicz also defends the positive role of what all three recognized as the manufactured or invented myth in the twentieth century. clas.ufl.edu/users/burt/Political%20Theology%20and%20Fiction%20in%20The%20Kings%20Two%20Bodies.pdf
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