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William J. Ryan
By placing La fronda aristocrática en Chile (1928) in dialogue with the work of controversial German jurist Carl Schmitt, this article conceptualizes Alberto Edwards’ authoritarian political theology, understood as a reactionary discursive strategy within the counterrevolutionary tradition that employs religious language to characterize political phenomena and legitimize dictatorship. Edwards posits four epochs structured by secularization and the progressive erosion of hierarchies and traditionalist societal features. His periodization moves from divinely-sanctioned monarchy to the ‘atheism’ of liberal democracy and communism. With his essay, Edwards supports Ibáñez del Campo’s contemporary dictatorship to impede anarchy in this age of ‘political atheism’.
