Political rule: still in thrall of gods and masters?

Title: Political rule: still in thrall of gods and masters?
Creator: Jose, Jim
Relation: Nebula Vol. 7, Issue 4, p. 12-19
Relation: http://www.nobleworld.biz/nebulajmsarchives/nebula74.html
Publisher: Samar Habib
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: One of the enduring aspirations to emerge during the French revolution was that of 'ni dieu, ni maitre', loosely meaning neither God nor master. The idea that political order derives from neither gods nor masters but from self-actualising citizens can be regarded as the sine qua non of modem political rule. Even so, political theory has not yet managed to cut offthe king's head, as Foucault once remarked. Yet this only states half the problem. Not only has political theory not managed to remove the king's head, it has also been unable to dispense with king's soul, the religious foundations of political rule. Rather, political rule remains beholden to the hierarchies of gods and masters. To demonstrate this is the burden of this paper.
Subject: political order; political theory; French revolution; religion
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927914
Identifier: uon:10288
Identifier: ISSN:1838-1472
Language: eng
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