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Politics to Come Power, Modernity and the Messianic

Bradley Arthur Fletcher, Paul
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781441109620
Publisert
2012-01-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum Publishing Corporation
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234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
238

Redaktør
Bradley Arthur
Fletcher, Paul

Biographical note

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. 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; Demda's Of Grammatology: A Philosophical Guide and (with Andrew Tate) The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic after 9/11.

Politics to Come Power, Modernity and the Messianic

Bradley Arthur Fletcher, Paul
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
Bradley Arthur Fletcher, Paul
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
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The Politics to Come brings together an international collection of thinkers to consider the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. It examines the explosive threats the liberal order confronts today: financial meltdown, religious extremism, environmental catastrophe. Yet, it also seeks to place these - singularly modern - crises within a much longer history. For the contributors to this collection, it is the ancient religious tradition called 'the messianic' that provides the critical lens through which modernity may be interrogated. In its ongoing struggles with the messianic, liberal modernity confronts the promise and threat of a radically new Politics to Come. So what are the Politics to Come? How do they manifest themselves throughout history? Why does the possibility of a messianic judgement continue to haunt the western political imaginary? This collection offers a series of political, philosophical and theological perspectives from which the future of liberal modernity - if it has one - can be imagined.
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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 Messianismi? 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); Index.
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Considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain.
Multidisciplinary selection of renowned contributors, each bringing their own expertise to the debate.
In recent years the study of the nature and function of religion with respect to politics has seen enormous changes. This important series provides a range of books devoted to furthering this study, and aimed at those studying and researching in this area across both disciplines. Titles in this series look specifically at the relationship between religion and political culture. Drawing upon a broad range of religious perspectives the series is open for studies of historical as well as current phenomena in political culture. It seeks not only to inform but to provoke debate at a time when religion is gaining increasing prominence in the public realm.
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The Politics to Come brings together an international collection of thinkers to consider the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. It examines the explosive threats the liberal order confronts today: financial meltdown, religious extremism, environmental catastrophe. Yet, it also seeks to place these - singularly modern - crises within a much longer history. For the contributors to this collection, it is the ancient religious tradition called 'the messianic' that provides the critical lens through which modernity may be interrogated. In its ongoing struggles with the messianic, liberal modernity confronts the promise and threat of a radically new Politics to Come. So what are the Politics to Come? How do they manifest themselves throughout history? Why does the possibility of a messianic judgement continue to haunt the western political imaginary? This collection offers a series of political, philosophical and theological perspectives from which the future of liberal modernity - if it has one - can be imagined.
Les mer
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 Messianismi? 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); Index.
Les mer
Considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain.
Multidisciplinary selection of renowned contributors, each bringing their own expertise to the debate.
In recent years the study of the nature and function of religion with respect to politics has seen enormous changes. This important series provides a range of books devoted to furthering this study, and aimed at those studying and researching in this area across both disciplines. Titles in this series look specifically at the relationship between religion and political culture. Drawing upon a broad range of religious perspectives the series is open for studies of historical as well as current phenomena in political culture. It seeks not only to inform but to provoke debate at a time when religion is gaining increasing prominence in the public realm.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781441109620
Publisert
2012-01-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
238

Redaktør
Bradley Arthur
Fletcher, Paul

Biographical note

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. 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; Demda's Of Grammatology: A Philosophical Guide and (with Andrew Tate) The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic after 9/11.

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