Political Theology

Demystifying the Universal

AvMarinos Diamantides,Anton Schütz

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. While accepting that foundational issues of religions weigh heavier than political philosophy’s aspirations, the authors question the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt’s political theology, building instead upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben’s close-reading of Christian government as management. The book identifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudence and concludes that the West’s secular universality is passing off as politics or law what is really the management of its own dwindling primacy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-05-17
Mått:138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:343 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Encounters in Law & Philosophy
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748697779

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Marinos Diamantides is Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of The Ethics of Suffering (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of Islam, Law and Identity (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011) and Law, Levinas, Politics (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009). Anton Schütz is an Honorary Fellow of Kent Law School, University of Kent. He is co-editor of the book series Encounters in Law and Philosophy (EUP). His current studies focus on right-centred vs. law-centred normative orders

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Diamantides and Schütz describe how Western Christian theology has led to a collective sense that has 'little or no relation to reality'. The violence of this system comes from the way that it insists that what it is promoting is real when it is not. For this reason, evoking an alternative sense of reality is no small accomplishment and that is precisely what this book does. If you want a happy ending, read a different book. If you want a brave and insightful glimpse of the way the modern world is continually shaped and reshaped by hidden theologies, then this is the book for you.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Premises and ArgumentsPart 1: Religions R Us1. From Sovereignty to Negeschatology2. Social Systems on the Cross3. The Religion of Progress4. Political Theology beyond SchmittPart 2: Historicised Political Theology5. From Jerusalem to Rome via Constantinople6. The Transition from Secularism to Post-Secularism7. Deeds Without WordsNotesIndex