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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Creston.

Milbank, John.

Žižek, Slavoj.

Series:

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

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

SIC ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and politics.

Capitalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Capitalism.

Religion and politics.

Capitalism--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A reassertion o fthe importance of theology to political action that goes beyond both liberal democratic theory and neoconservatism.

Contents:

Introduction / Rowan Williams

PART 1 : REVOLUTION AND THEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE

Tragedy and revolution / Terry Eagleton

Metanoia: the theological praxis of revolution / Creston Davis, Patrick Aaron Riches

The "thrilling romance of orthodoxy" / Slavoj Zizek

Nothing is, something must be: Lacan and creation from No one / Conor Cunningham

Revelation and revolution / Regina Mara Schwartz

PART 2 : ONTOLOGY, CAPITAL, AND KINGDOM

Capital and kingdom: an eschatological ontology / Philip Goodchild

Neither servility nor sovereignty: between metaphysics and politics / William Desmond

Of chrematology: Joyce and money / Simon Critchley, Tom McCarthy

Only Jesus saves: toward a theopolitical ontology of judgment / Daniel M. Bell Jr.

PART 3 : INFINITE DESIRE AND THE POLITICAL SUBJECT

The political subject and absolute immanence / Antonio Negri

Rewriting the ontological script of liberation: on the question of finding a new kind of political subject / Kenneth Surin

Ecclesia: the art of the virtual / Anthony Baker, Rocco Gangle

The univocalist mode of production / Catherine Pickstock

PART 4 : REENCHANTING THE POLITICAL BEYOND ONTOTHEOLOGY

The commodification of religion, or the consummation of captialism / Graham Ward

The unbearable withness of being: on the essentialist blind spot of anti-ontotheology / Mary-Jane Rubenstein

"To cut too deeply and not enough": violence and the incorporeal / Eleanor Kaufman

The two sources of the "theological machine": Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on religion, technicity, war, and terror / Hent de Vries

PART 5 : THEOLOGICAL MATERIALISM

Materialism and transcendence / John Milbank

Truth and peace: theology and the body politic in Augustine and Hobbes / Karl Hefty

The politics of the eye: toward a theological materialism / Phillip Blond.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-02403-9

9786613024039

0-8223-8649-6

OCLC:

220950548