ABSTRACT
The exposition of the unpolitical commences from the political theology of Romano Guardini and Carl Schmitt, and their fundamental convergence regarding the position and purpose of Christianity and, in particular, the Roman Catholic Church, within the plurality of spheres of value created by the process of secularisation. For Esposito, it is this conception of representation which marks the strongest degree of affinity between the political theology of Guardini and of Carl Schmitt. The phenomena of totalitarianism by clinging to: The theological which, for Voegelin, is the unpolitical divested of its connection to political theology is, for Arendt, an insufficient form of understanding. The divergence between the unpolitical and the political with which The Death of Virgil concludes is also the subject of Broch's final, unfinished work on mass psychology. The completion and reversal produced by Canetti's thought entails that Broch's initial distinction between a realm of the ethical and a framework of norms of positive law disappears.
