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In Praise of Polytheism

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under the separation of powers of ancient polytheism, before it was formulated under the threat from monotheism. Marquard believes when people recognise that myths are stories, it becomes possible to identify modern polymythical thinking, which exists in fields like the scientific study of history and in novels. For philosophy to break with the monomyth, he argues, it must allow dissent and tell stories again, defying charges of
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The emancipation story, writes Marquard, emerged as a failed attempt to secularise the salvation story. Like its precursor, it is a story about how humans will cease to be subject to myths, but eventually became a new mythology itself. After the new mythology emerged, an uneasiness about the monomyth
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impulse, which posits a logic of difference against a unifying, colonializing logic of sameness". Due to the nationalist implications of StrauĂź' and Walser's texts, Schnurbein wrote that "Taubes' early critique of Marquard is not as far-fetched or one-sided as it might have seemed at the moment of
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Marquard says the true solution is "enlightened polymythical thinking": the modern world began when monotheism was disenchanted, which also led to the "disenchanted return of polytheism" in the form of the political separation of powers and the reemergence of the individual; the latter had existed
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wrote his 1998 doctoral dissertation as a response to Marquard's writings about polytheism and monotheism. Halbmayr argued that the separation of powers that Marquard requests can be found in the Christian concept of the Trinity, and that Marquard engages in wishful thinking when he presents
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and academic perspective, because among the world's population, only a minority adheres to nominally monotheistic religions. Within even those religions, monotheism is only one of several elements that inform the religious practice.
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as examples of the same "mythological orientalism". Marquard argues that this countermovement never will offer a solution, because it merely submits exotic mythology to the monomyth of progress and thereby confirms its domination.
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wrote that "In Praise of Polytheism" is written in a "noble-philosophical diction" with the effect that "you don't know to what extent the matter is meant as serious", or if Marquard had been inebriated when he conceived it.
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126: 75:, and argues that people should embrace what Marquard calls "enlightened polymythical thinking"—the recognition of several stories in the modern world. Marquard was a professor of philosophy and proponent of 240:, because he was convinced they inevitably end up in conflict with a reality that will fail to meet their demands. Without a monopolistic power in the form of a founding principle, Marquard thought the 659:, critiqued "In Praise of Polytheism" in 2007 and also rejected Marquard's argument about polytheism. Faber described the polytheism of ancient Greece as a self-destructive "oligotheism"—a theological 338:
The essay posits that myths can be harmful or wholesome: monomythical thinking—allowing only one story—is harmful because it causes narrative atrophy; conversely, polymythical thinking is a
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In 1983, Taubes published a response to "In Praise of Polytheism" where he wrote that Marquard should ask himself if he had not outlined a "philosophical choreography" for present-day "
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at the turn of the 20th century. Taubes said the essay produces a mythical mindset rather than describes one, and that "recourses to myth post Christum are really just repetitions of
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and turned "histories" into the singular "history". Marquard calls it the second end of polymythical thinking; the first was the end of religious polytheism. Although the Christian
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Marquard believed a lack of meaning in the modern world had resulted in cultural and intellectual decay, and that the solution was to rediscover systems of meaning from the
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Marquard, Odo (2007). "Éloge du polythéisme. Monomythie et polymythie" [In praise of polytheism. Monomythical and polymythical thinking].
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Marquard, Odo (1983). "Aufgeklärter Polytheismus—auch eine politische Theologie?" [Enlightened polytheism—also a political theology?]. In
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The texts in question are StrauĂź' 1993 essay "Anschwellender Bocksgesang" and Walser's 1998 essay "Ich vertraue. Querfeldein".
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within the theology and philosophy of history, where the separation of powers should be kept in mind. The Lutheran theologian
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Skeptizismus und Protestantismus. Der philosophische Ansatz Odo Marquards als Herausforderung an die evangelische Theologie
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Taubes dismissed the idea that polytheism is the seed to the individual and the separation of powers. He pointed to the
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The philosophers engaged in these discussions varied in their approaches and solutions to the problems they identified.
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Taubes, Jacob (1983). "Zur Konjunktur des Polytheismus" [On the current situation of polytheism]. In
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a suitable place to look for models for a modern way of life. Another precursor was the Christian theologian
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in 1978. It was first published in 1979 in an anthology, and was published again in 1981 in Marquard's book
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Marquard continued his arguments in the text "Aufgeklärter Polytheismus—auch eine politische Theologie?" (
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Scepticism and Protestantism. Odo Marquard's philosophical effort as a challenge to evangelical theology
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are based on "monomythical thinking", meaning that they only allow one story. It also posits that the
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will be able to live in contingency and in freedom, because there is a plurality of possibilities.
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Die Rekurse auf Mythos post Christum sind in Wahrheit nur Wiederholungen der Apostasie Julians.
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polytheism as a guarantee for freedom. Halbmayr called for resumed critical discussions about
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Marquard, Odo (1989). "In Praise of Polytheism (On Monomythical and Polymythical Thinking)".
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began to show. It expressed itself as an increased interest in the exotic, which included
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Individual by separation alone—considerations on the individual and separation of powers
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Several German-speaking philosophers in the 20th century addressed concerns about
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in 1981 and translated into English by Robert M. Wallace in 1989 through the
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concepts. Some of the points in the essay have precursors in the writings of
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God and the idols. On God's power in the face of the life determining powers
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and secular politics or science. Schmitt discussed this under the label of
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The dissertation was defended in 1998 and published as a book in 2000.
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In Praise of Polytheism (On Monomythical and Polymythical Thinking)
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In praise of multitude. On Odo Marquard's criticism of monotheism
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posits that modern political concepts are secularised theology.
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Fragen nach dem einen Gott. Die Monotheismusdebatte im Kontext
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observations on a current debate from late antiquity]. In
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Faber compared "In Praise of Polytheism" to Blumenberg's book
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Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth
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Questions about the one God. The monotheism debate in context
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Marquard's essay "In Praise of Polytheism" argues that human
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Beobachtungen zu einer aktuellen Debatte aus der Spätantike"
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From a Christian perspective, the Roman Catholic theologian
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Jacob Taubes likened the views in the essay to those of the
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Lob der Vielheit. Zur Kritik Odo Marquards am Monotheismus
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Marquard (1928–2015) was a professor of philosophy at the
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Mythos und Moderne. Begriff und Bild einer Rekonstruktion
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in the 1990s. She wrote that the three authors share a "
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Marquard gave "In Praise of Polytheism" as a lecture at
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Farewell to Matters of Principle: Philosophical Studies
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Myth and modern. Concept and image of a reconstruction
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The ruler of this world. Carl Schmitt and what follows
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Handbook of fundamental concepts in religious studies
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Lob des Polytheismus. Ăśber Monomythie und Polymythie
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Index

German
German philosopher
Odo Marquard
Technische Universität Berlin
monotheism
Enlightenment
separation of powers
individual
polytheism
scepticism
pluralism
modernity
political theology
theological
Max Weber
Erik Peterson
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jacob Taubes
far-right politics
First-edition cover of the book Politische Theologie (Political Theology) by Carl Schmitt
meaning
modernity
secularisation
Carl Schmitt
Karl Löwith
theology
political theology
Jacob Taubes
Gershom Scholem
Gnostic

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