Apocalyptic Political Theology

Hegel, Taubes and Malabou

AvThomas Lynch,Arthur Bradley

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Hegel’s philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology. When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and politics, this political theology is a resource for apocalyptic thinking. In a world of climate change, inequality, oppressive gender roles and racism, Hegel can be used to theorise the hope found in the end of that world.Histories of apocalyptic thinking draw a line connecting the medieval prophet Joachim of Fiore and Marx. This line passes through Hegel, who transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology by philosophically employing theological concepts to critique the world. Jacob Taubes provides an example of this Hegelian political theology, weaving Christianity, Judaism and philosophy to develop an apocalypticism that is not invested in the world. Taubes awaits the end of the world knowing that apocalyptic destruction is also a form of creation. Catherine Malabou discusses this relationship between destruction and creation in terms of plasticity. Using plasticity to reformulate apocalypticism allows for a form of apocalyptic thinking that is immanent and materialist.Together Hegel, Taubes and Malabou provide the resources for thinking about why the world should end. The resulting apocalyptic pessimism is not passive, but requires an active refusal of the world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt:309 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Political Theologies
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350177185

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Thomas Lynch is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chichester, UK.

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This exciting new book in the field of political theology provides a helpful reading of the often-denigrated figure of Hegel, the often-glossed figure of Taubes, and the work of Malabou—who has not—to my knowledge—been read as an aid to political theology.

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Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Philosophy, political theology and the end of the worldWhat is political theology?What is this world that ends?Conflicts and antagonismsImagining the endQuestioning the apocalypse2. Implicit Political Theology: Reading Hegel’s Philosophy of ReligionJoachim, Hegel and the end of the worldRepresentational thought: An outline of Hegel’s philosophy of religionHegel’s implicit political theologyPhilosophy and the return to representationConclusion3. Spiritual disinvestment: Taubes, Hegel and apocalypticismAn introduction to TaubesTaubes and the apocalyptic HegelThe problem of apocalypticism and historyTaubes and BlochAnti-liberal tendencies in Hegel, Taubes and SchmittTranscendental materialist readings of Hegel: From Taubes to Malabou4. Plastic ApocalypticismMalabou, Hegel and plasticityPlastic apocalypticism: Taubes and MalabouThe problem of alterity and the rejection of the transcendentA Blochian supplementContingency and plastic apocalypticismConclusion5. Pessimism and hope in apocalyptic livingLiving with the absence of alternativesPessimism and surrenderLiving towards the end of the worldThe endBibliographyIndex