TY  - CHAP
A1  - Frey, Christiane
T1  - Restrain
T2  - Re-: an errant glossary ; Cultural Inquiry ; 15
N2  - The re- of 'restrain' - not the more common iterative 're-' but a mere, if semantically obscure intensifier - marks a temporal paradox: the restraint that prevents a force from reaching its 'telos' is not only a delay, but the intervention of a separate, autonomous, and anti-teleological regime of time. The article reads the biblical figure of the 'katéchon', 'the withholder', as an expression of this paradox and as symptomatic of a political-theological ambivalence essential to the foundation of Western political thought. If the 'secular order' or 'worldly government' has the function of withholding both the ultimate salvation and the final outbreak of chaos, then it sustains itself only by postponing any determination of its value or effect.
KW  - Delay
KW  - Postponement
KW  - Interruption
KW  - Temporal paradox
KW  - Withholding power
KW  - Political theology
KW  - Revelation
KW  - Salvation
KW  - Secular order
KW  - Restraint
KW  - katéchon
KW  - Politische Theologie
KW  - Weltliche Macht
KW  - Verzögerung
KW  - Heil
KW  - Eschatologie
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52840
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-528407
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-15/frey_restrain.pdf
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019012415410248363509
SN  - 978-3-96558-001-5
SN  - 978-3-96558-002-2
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 142
EP  - 149
PB  - ICI Berlin Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -