The politics to come : power, modernity and the messianic / edited by Arthur Bradley and Paul Fetcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, Arthur, editor.

Fletcher, Paul, editor.

Series:

Continuum Studies in Religion & Political Culture, 3

Continuum studies in religion and political culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Messiah.

Philosophy, Modern.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Religion and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction : The Politics to Come: A History of Futurity / Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher

Part 1. Promises. Chapter 1. The Messianic Now : A Secular Response / Richard Beardsworth ; Chapter 2. Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'? : A Response to Richard Beardsworth / Adam Thurschwell ; Chapter 3. A Brief Response to Adam Thurschwell's 'Politics without the Messianic or a "Messianic without Messianism"?' / Richard Beardsworth

Part 2. Genealogies. Chapter 4. Messianic Deposition : Representation and the Flight of the Gods / Laurence Paul Hemming ; Chapter 5. Towards Perpetual Revolution : Kant on Freedom and Authority / Paul Fletcher ; Chapter 6. Hegel's Messianic Reasoning and its Theological Politics / Graham Ward ; Chapter 7. Before the Anti-Christ is Revealed : On the Katechontic Structure of Messianic Time / Michael Hoelzl ; Chapter 8. The Weakness of Our 'Messianic Power' : Kristeva on Sacrifice / Pamela Sue Anderson

Part 3. Futures. Chapter 9. The Holocaust and the Messianic / Robert Eaglestone ; Chapter 10. Economies of P romise : On Caesar and Christ / Philip Goodchild ; Chapter 11. 'Something Unique is Afoot in Europe' : Derrida Reading Kant / Joanna Hodge ; Chapter 12. The Theocracy to Come : Deconstruction, Autoimmunity, Islam / Arthur Bradley ; Chapter 13. Violences of the Messianic / Michael Dillon

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [208]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9786612590771

9781472549488

1472549481

9781282590779

1282590774

9781441196620

1441196625

OCLC:

601821080