Kutsal ve siyasal, siyasal ve kutsal
Özet
Undergoing the process of establishing itself as an autonomous discipline, political science has overwhelmingly had a reductionist approach towards politics, diminishing it to the administration of state. This approach, which takes for granted the notion that political society can only materialize via a division between the rulers and the ruled, moves from the assumption that there exist two distinct orders: the political (state) - the social order (civil society) .It is inevitable for the political science perspective that is based on the idea that this duality will and should prevail under any circumstance to handle politics solely on the basis of the practices of ruling. The questions of how and why a distinction surfaces between social order and political order -if such a distinction exists at all-, where the society and the state detect their meaning and legitimacy, what is considered to be the source of the viability of political power and law as emancipated from their divine connections are not heeded as of even some secondary significance within this perspective. The political attitudes that depart from the fact that these questions remain unanswered to date are often dismissed as extremist or fundamentalist.This piece of work aims to breathe new life to these questions and to pose the notion of the ?sacred?, which is almost inexistent in the analyses and debates within the confines of political science. It propounds the thesis that the materialization and the sustenance of political ties in any society regardless of its levels of development or complexity is only possible through the formulation, reproduction and reflection upon the society of some categories of the sacred. Its ultimate goal therefore is to substantiate the existence of an indispensable partnership between sacred and political, and to demonstrate that this partnership has not disappeared with the modern state but only undergone a formalistic transformation.