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The illegitimate age : aesthetics and political theology / Federico Vercellone ; translated by Robert T. Valgenti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vercellone, Federico, author.
- Series:
- Outspoken Series ; v. 7.
- Outspoken Series ; v.7
- Standardized Title:
- Età illegittima. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--Political aspects.
- Aesthetics.
- Political theology.
- Christianity and politics.
- Power (Social sciences)--Philosophy.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 158 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Aesthetics and political theology
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Through an analysis of the katechon myth - a withholding power that contains the very evil it restrains - The Illegitimate Age reveals an aesthetic lens through which to interpret the legitimacy of political power, the appeal of populism, and the role of the image in current society.
- Contents:
- The Illegitimate Age: Aesthetics and Political Theology
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Age of Anti-Utopias
- 1 The Anti-Utopian Age
- We Have Never Been Postmodern
- A Truly Secularized Modernity?
- Aestheticization
- Democracy and the Community of Desire
- 2 The Aestheticization of Power: More on the "Withholding Power"
- The Event of the New Testament
- The Return of the Katechon and the Legitimacy of Our Time
- 3 The Katechon Between the Ancient and the Modern: From Epiphany to Prestige
- Paul and the Second Letter to the Thessalonians
- Tertullian and Augustine
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- 4 From Dostoevsky to Today
- The Grand Inquisitor
- The Actuality of the Antichrist
- 5 Still in the Christian Era
- Seeing or Looking at Images?
- The Society of the Image after the Civitas Christiana?
- Autonomy (of the Politician) Denied
- The Nomos and the Messiah
- 6 The Aesthetics of "The Withholding Power"
- Unstable Power
- Aesthetics and Politics after the Katechon
- Kitsch
- Yet Another Step: Hamlet and After
- Nothing New
- The Re-enchantment of the World
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Translation of: L'età illegittima : estetica e politica.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-2280-2451-X
- 0-2280-2450-1
- OCLC:
- 1522806947
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