Politics to Come

Arthur Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy, Derrida's Of Grammatology: A Philosophical Guide and (with Andrew Tate) The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic after 9/11. Paul Fletcher (1965-2008) was Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Disciplining the Divine: Toward an (Im)political Theology.

• Introduction; Part I: Questioning Political Religion. 1. Messianic Politics: A Secular Response, Richard Beardsworth (American University of Paris, France); 2. Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'?: A Response to Richard Beardswiorth, Adam Thurschwell (Cleveland State University, USA); 3. 'Messianic Power' for a Secular Generation, Pamela Sue Anderson (University of Oxford, UK); 4. Are We Really Secular?: The Limits of la-vie-la-mort, Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK); Part II: Questioning Political Modernity; 5. Economies of Promise: Fiscal and Christian, Philip Goodchild (University of Nottingham, UK); 6. Messianic Deposition: Representation and the Flight of the Gods, Lawrence Paul Hemming (University of London, UK); 7. Liberal Peace and Endemic (Messianic) Insecurity, Michael Dillon (Lancaster University, UK); 8. Pre-Secular Philosophy: Deconstruction, Messianism, Secularism, Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University, UK); Part III: Historical and Theoretical Analyses; 9. Hegel: The Messianic and the Dialectic of Secularism, Graham Ward (University of Manchester, UK); 10. The Politics of Grace: Hobbes and Redemption from Nature, Paul Fletcher (Lancaster University, UK); 11. Minimal Messianity in Benjamin, Werner Hamacher (University of Frankfurt, Germany); 12. The Kat-echon and Schmitt, Michael Hoelzl (University of Manchester, UK); 13. Weak Messianic Power and the Holocaust, Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK).