Order, Crisis, and Redemption

Peter Langford is Senior Lecturer in Law at Edge Hill University in England. His many books include Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political. Saul Newman is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of many books, including Political Theology: A Critical Introduction.

"Order, Crisis, and Redemption uses an original and scholarly reevaluation of Carl Schmitt's political theology as a springboard for addressing key political issues of the day, such as climate change and the Anthropocene, Neoliberalism, populism, and the decline of the nation-state as a viable political structure for taking humanity into the foreseeable future. It also engages, in a masterful and enlightening fashion, with commentaries on Schmitt (Agamben, Böckenforde). Particularly insightful is the way the work invokes Schmitt's catholic background and catholic theology as a way of clarifying the rationale for Schmitt's approach to a range of issues, but especially the notions of sovereignty and democracy."—John Lechte, author of The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life

• Introduction1. From States of Emergency to Forms of the Political2. Who Is the Subject of Political Theology? 3. Person, Identity, Transformation 4. Political Theology and the Anthropocene 5. Technology as Political Theology 6. Political Theology and Democratic Constitutionalism 7. Political Theology and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Constitutionalism 8. Katechon and the Problem of Order Coda Notes References Index