Theology and the political : the new debate / Creston Davis, John Milbank, and Slavoj Žižek, editors ; with an introduction by Rowan Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Davis, Creston.

Milbank, John

Žižek, Slavoj.

Series:

SIC (Durham, N.C.) ; 5.

Studien zur interkulturellen Kommunikation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and politics.

Capitalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Capitalism.

Religion and politics.

Capitalism--Religious aspects.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 476 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The essays in Theology and the Political-written by some of the world's foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics-analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political in light of the thought of figures ranging from Plato to Marx, Levinas to Derrida, and Augustine to Lacan. Together, the contributors challenge the belief that meaningful action is simply the successful assertion of will, that politics is ultimately reducible to "might makes right." From a variety of perspectives, they suggest that grounding human action and politics in materialist critique offers revolutionary possibilities that transcend the nihilism inherent in both contemporary liberal democratic theory and neoconservative ideology.

Contents:

Part 1 Revolution and Theological Difference

Tragedy and Revolution / Terry Eagleton 7

Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution / Creston Davis, Patrick Aaron Riches 22

The "Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy" / Slavoj Zizek 52

Nothing Is, Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One / Conor Cunningham 72

Revelation and Revolution / Regina Mara Schwartz 102

Part 2 Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom

Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology / Philip Goodchild 127

Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics / William Desmond 153

Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money / Simon Critchley, Tom McCarthy 183

Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment / Daniel M. Bell Jr. 200

Part 3 Infinite Desire and the Political Subject

The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence / Antonio Negri 231

Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject / Kenneth Surin 240

Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual / Anthony Baker, Rocco Gangle 267

The Univocalist Mode of Production / Catherine Pickstock 281

Part 4 Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology

The Commodification of Religion, or The Consummation of Capitalism / Graham Ward 327

The Unbearable Withness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anti-ontotheology / Mary-Jane Rubenstein 340

"To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough": Violence and the Incorporeal / Eleanor Kaufman 350

The Two Sources of the "Theological Machine": Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror / Hent de Vries 366

Part 5 Theological Materialism

Materialism and Transcendence / John Milbank 393

Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes / Karl Hefty 427

The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism / Phillip Blond 439.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822334607

0822334720

OCLC:

57186406