« Religions politiques » et eschatologie La question de la temporalité de l’ordre politique chez Eric Voegelin et Karl Löwith

Although Eric ­Voegelin’s later works were explicitly critical of the ­concept of “political religions”, this ­concept is still frequently used as a critical tool for the interpretation of totalitarianism and other millenarian movements. This article aims to show the ­continuity between Political Religions and these later works. Emphasizing the proximity between Voegelin and Karl Löwith, it highlights the fundamental question regarding millenarian movements, namely their ­conception of history and the temporality of the political order it implies.