The political dialogue of nature and grace : towards a phenomenology of chaste anarchism / Caitlin Smith Gilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith Gilson, Caitlin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism.

Christianity and politics.

Phenomenology.

Political theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The discourse between nature and grace finds its linguistic and existential podium in the political condition of human beings. As Caitlin Smith Gilson shows, it is in this arena that the perennial territorial struggle of faith and reason, God and man, man and state, take place; and it is here that the understanding of the personal-as-political, as well as the political-as-personal, finds its meaning. And it is here, too, that the divine finds or is refused a home. Any discussion of "post-secular society" has its origins in this political dialogue between nature and grace, the resolution of which might determine not only a future post-secular society but one in which awe is re-united to affection, solidarity and fraternity. Smith Gilson questions whether the idea of pure nature antecedently disregards the fact that grace enters existence and that this accomplishes a conversion in the metaphysical/existential region of man's action and being. This conversion alters how man acts as an affective, moral, intellectual, social, political and spiritual being. State of nature theories, transformed yet retained in the broader metaphysical and existential implications of the Hegelian Weltgeist, are shown to be indebted to the ideological restrictedness of pure nature (natura pura) as providing the foremost adversary to any meaningful type of divine presence within the polis, as well as inhibiting the phenomenological facticity of man as an open nature."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

A Note on Context

Introduction: Stating the Problem

Chapter I: Rebellion of the Gladiators: The Disappearance of Man's Open Nature

Chapter II: Calderon and the Chaste Anarchism

Chapter III: The A-Historical Temporality of the Chaste Anarchism

Chapter IV: The Groundwork for the Christian Polis: Noli Me Tangere

Epilogue: The Polis and the Seven Last Words of Christ

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501308215

1501308211

9781501308208

1501308203

OCLC:

913376307