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Civil Society and Fanaticism

Conjoined Histories
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Luther and Calvin applied the term fanatic to those who sought to destroy civil society in order to establish the Kingdom of God, the false prophets and their followers who, early on in the Reformation, began smashing images in churches and rebelling against princes. Civil Society and Fanaticism is organized around this seminal moment of religious and political iconoclasm, an outburst of hatred against mediations and representation. The author shows that civil society and fanaticism have been consistently present as conjoined notions in Western political thought since the sixteenth century, underlining the link between two principles that are constitutive of that thought: dualism between the City of God and the earthly city, between civil society and the state and the validity of representation.
Dominique Colas is Professor at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. The French edition of this work was awarded a special mention for the Premio Europeo Amalfi.
List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: the fanatic's truth; 1. Civil society and fanaticism: conjoined histories; 2. Civil society and the city of God; 3. Sword against flail; 4. The painter of the two cities; 5. The mouth of God; 6. The voice of the prophets; 7. The absolute bourgeois; 8. The citizen as Bourgeois; 9. Civil society and civil war; 10. Civil society and the law-governed state; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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