Abstract

Political theology is a complex philosophical concept that should not be exclusively identified with the modern, absolutist version proposed by Schmitt in 1922. Kantorowicz proved that we can find political theology in the Middle Ages, since the divided nature of the King is the result of the process of secularization of theological concepts such as corpus mysticum. Schmitt’s final indecision (on the one hand, the historical concept of secularization; on the other hand, the image of the structural analogy between theological and political discourses) turns out to be decisive to grasp postmodern versions of political theology. In the second part of this paper it will be studied how three contemporary authors (Agamben, Laclau, Badiou) come to terms with one of the two schmittian alternatives when they analyse political concepts such as sovereignty, government, antagonism, hegemony or event. _Keywords:_ Political Theology, Secularization, Corpus Mysticum, Sovereignty, Economical Theology, Government, Hegemony, Event.