The Concept of Religio Duplex within Today’s Discourse of Globalization
The Concept of Religio Duplex within Today’s Discourse of Globalization

Author(s): Béla Mester
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Rhetoric
Published by: Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti
Keywords: religio duplex; eloquent lack; Cosmopolitan thought; local identities;
Summary/Abstract: Within the Continental theoretical tradition, Jan Assmann is an inevitable figure, concerning the questions of the relationship of the universality and particularity of cultures. His last important monograph on the history of religio duplex (2010) from its late antique origins to the German Enlightenment discusses the religious background of the tradition of the Cosmopolitan thought, with important consequences for the nowadays common political opinions. Assmann’s last achievements are focussed on the interpretation of the Egyptian culture in the early modern and modern epochs, before the decoding of the hieroglyphs. The dynamic equilibrium of the Cosmopolitan thought and local identities, offered by Assmann’s theory within the framework of the Western theological thinking, is a possibility for modelling the relationship of local and global in general. My critical contribution concerns the eloquent lack of the Kantian philosophy of religion in Assmann’s reconstruction of the reliogio duplex within the framework of the German Enlightenment, and it tries to answer the reason why of this missing topic

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