- 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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