Resumen de Every Religion Is Idolatry

Stathis Gourgouris

• After reviewing the contemporary politics of espousing political theology as a mode of thinking, this essay is a meditation on the assertion by Cornelius Castoriadis that "every religion is idolatry." Idolatry here is configured beyond the conventional understanding of the idol as a concrete object of worship which works within the logic of representation. In monotheism, even the unrepresentable�or, perhaps, especially the unrepresentable�is an idol, an object of worship that is otherwise silenced by a language that claims to worship a non-object. In this sense, the prohibition of images in monotheism (Bildverbot) is a highly sophisticated mode of idolatry