Political Cosmogony: Three Matrices of Political Theology

Daniel Nunes Pereira

doi:10.22151/politikon.19.5

Authors

Daniel Nunes Pereira Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22151/politikon.19.5

Keywords:

state theories, religion, political philosophy, theology

Abstract

This essay intends to draw parallels between theories concerning the origins of the State and religion. The similarities are evident in three different matrices, namely, the Myth, the Domination and the Unconscious, studied, respectively, by Phenomenology, Sociology and Psychoanalysis, whereupon, from the perspective of Political Philosophy, the importance of rituals and signs is investigated. Furthermore, this essay undertakes to understand to what extent State and political organization can be parallelized to various cosmogonic and theogonic myths.

Author Biography

Daniel Nunes Pereira, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Daniel Nunes Pereira, 26, is M.A candidate in Political Science and L.L.M. candidate in Sociology & Jurisprudence, both at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in Brazil. He received his Bachelor in Jurisprudence at Universidade Federal Fluminense in 2010, and on the same year attended at CPE in European History at the Universiteit Utrecht (UU) in Netherlands. His interests and fields of research include Political Theology, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.