Three Principle of “Political Theology” in the Gerge-Kreis

A.V. MIKHAYLOVSKY

Abstract

This paper is concerned with one of the most prominent examples of the German intellectual
history of the beginning of the 20th century, the George circle. The study identifi es tree principles
which are crucial for the “political theology” in the George circle – the principle of covenant,
the principle of charismatic leader and the principle of dominance and service. The main
hypothesis evaluated in the study is that the George circle was the ideologically integrated group
of intellectuals which sought to reformat politics by means of aesthetics and infl uenced the
language and ideology of “conservative revolution” in Weimar Germany.