Neoliberalism and Political Theology

From Kant to Identity Politics

AvCarl Raschke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Neoliberalism has become the operative buzzword among pundits and academics to characterise an increasingly dysfunctional global political economy. It is often – wrongly – identified exclusively with free market fundamentalism and illiberal types of cultural conservatism. Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood. He lays out how the present new world disorder, signalled by the election of Trump and Brexit, derives less from the ascendancy of reactionary forces and more from the implosion of the post-Cold War effort to establish a progressive international moral and political order for the cynical benefit of a new cosmopolitan knowledge class, mimicking the so-called civilising mission of 19th-century European colonialists.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-28
Mått:138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474454551

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Carl Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Towards a Semiotics of the Event (University of Virginia Press, 2012), GloboChrist (Baker Academic, 2008), The Next Reformation (Baker Academic, 2004), The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University (Routledge, 2002), Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body (SUNY, 1995) and The Engendering God (Westminster, 1995) and Painted Black (HarperCollins, 1991).

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In this penetrating analysis of the political forces which underlie the clash of contemporary values, Raschke exposes the extent to which emancipatory discourse has been co-opted to serve the hegemony of global elites. At once provocative and contemporary, this is political theology at its most critical.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Toward a Genealogy of Neoliberalism; 2. Progressive Neoliberalism and Its Discontents; 3. Mediatic Hegemony – the Kingdom, the Power, the Glory, and the Tawdry; 4. Killing Us Softly – On Neoliberal ‘Truth’ Protocols; 5. The Epistemic Crisis; 6. Globalism, Multiculturalism, and the ‘Politics of Recognition’; 7. The Deep Political Theology of Neoliberalism; 8. Endings.