Politics & apocalypse / Robert Hamerton-Kelly, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamerton-Kelly, Robert.

Series:

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

End of the world.

Religion and politics.

History--Religious aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Politics and apocalypse

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is ""revelation"" or ""unveiling,"" the basis from which renowned theologian René Girard builds his own view of Biblical apocalypse. Properly understood, Girard explains, Biblical apocalypse has nothing to do with a wrathful or vengeful God punishing his unworthy children, and everything to do with a foretelling of what future humans are making for themselves now that they have devised the instruments of global self-destruction. In this volume, some of the major thinkers about the

Contents:

Table of Contents; An Introductory Essay - Robert Hamerton-Kelly ; The Evangelical Subversion of Myth - René Girard ; "Denial of the Apocalypse" versus "Fascination with the Final Days": Current Theological Discussion of Apocalyptic Thinking in the Perspective of Mimetic Theory - Józef Niewiadomski ; Carl Schmitt's "Apocalyptic" Resistance against Global Civil War - Wolfgang Palaver ; Philosophy, History, and Apocalypse in Voegelin, Strauss, and Girard - Fred Lawrence ; Modernity and the Jewish Question: What Leo Strauss Learned from Nietzsche - John Ranieri

The Straussian Moment - Peter Thiel Understanding in Quest of Faith: The Central Problem in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy - Stefan Rossbach; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-60917-041-5

OCLC:

778433445