Restrain
- 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.
| Author: | Christiane Frey |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-528407 |
| URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-15/frey_restrain.pdf |
| URL: | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019012415410248363509 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-15_18 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-001-5 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-002-2 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Re-: an errant glossary ; Cultural Inquiry ; 15 |
| Publisher: | ICI Berlin Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/01/27 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/01/28 |
| Tag: | Delay; Interruption; Political theology; Postponement; Restraint; Revelation; Salvation; Secular order; Temporal paradox; Withholding power katéchon |
| GND Keyword: | Politische Theologie; Weltliche Macht; Verzögerung; Heil; Eschatologie |
| Page Number: | 9 |
| First Page: | 142 |
| Last Page: | 149 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 458905755 |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |
