The modern European nation is the theological-political inversion of the kingdom

Evidence

Guenoun thus links the history of political change in Europe to this particular division, to what he calls the “theologico-political difference.” In this history, the nation that begins to emerge with the French Revolution is “the (theologico-political) figure of the inverted kingdom,” as well as the “inverted figure of the kingdom” (136). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 69