Modernity and the political fix / Andrew Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Andrew, 1949- author.

Series:

Political theologies.

Political theologies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Contents:

1 The Implosion of Modernity p. 23

The way we live now p. 23

Twelve features of the neoliberal mythos p. 31

Leibniz triumpkans p. 41

Political theology and counterdemocracy p. 44

2 Absolute Historicity p. 51

Heidegger and radical finitude p. 51

Foucault and his methods p. 55

Joyce's historical materialism p. 63

3 Event p. 69

Back to Badiou p. 69

Pro and contra the event p. 75

Kant and speculative reason p. 81

Woolf's 'strata of being' p. 85

4 Remainder p. 89

Carpaccio and the atomized emporium p. 89

'Mondes atones' from Hobbes to Schopenhauer p. 91

Wagner without redemption p. 97

5 The People Untranstormed p. 111

The unbridged gap p. 111

Agon of Weimar p. 113

Joseph Roth and 'the indolence of the heart' p. 116

Canetti and general solipsism p. 124

Rancière, Orwell and knowing the people p. 125

6 Transmission p. 135

A melancholic-ecstatic conception of history p. 135

Occupation and the survival of truth p. 142

Lacanian caveats p. 144

Transmission against the grain p. 154

Conclusion; A Political Theology p. 161

An inductive thought p. 161

Political theology and its critics p. 164

Schmitt, Blumenberg, Lefort p. 169

Metapboncs from the Old Testament to Kierkegaard p. 176

In the end, the poets p. 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1350096970

9781350096974

OCLC:

1047823740