The political theology of Schelling / Saitya Brata Das.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das, Saitya Brata, author.

Series:

New perspectives in ontology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854--Criticism and interpretation.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 264 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

Saitya Brata Das rigorously examines the theologico-political works of F. W. J. von Schelling and sets his thought against his contemporary, G, W. F. Hegel. He argues that Schelling inaugurates a new thinking outside of Occidental metaphysics, by a paradoxical manner of exit, which prepares for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida. This groundbreaking work contests the universal, homogenising world politics of modernity through its rereading of Schelling's later works and its rethinking of religious eschatology. Intervening in contemporary debates concerning the post-secular, the return of religion and political theology, Das shows that religion, in an essential sense, can open up infinitude from the heart of finitude to an irreducible outside of the profane order of worldly hegemonies. Religion here assumes a negative political theology of exception without sovereign power. Schelling's late political theology - far from being a conservative relic of the nineteenth century, as critics have sometimes suggested - opens up avenues for thinking our common being-together and for forming a political theology worthy of the new millennium. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Actuality-Without Potentiality 41

2 The Rhythm of History 90

3 The Beatific Life 132

4 The Irreducible Remainder 158

5 The Non-Sovereign Exception 182

6 The Tragic Dissonance 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781474416900

147441690X

OCLC:

944470377