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Order, Crisis, and Redemption : Political Theology after Schmitt / Peter Langford and Saul Newman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Langford, Peter, author.
- Newman, Saul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985.
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985--Influence.
- Schmitt, Carl.
- Democracy--Religious aspects.
- Democracy.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Political theology.
- Religion and politics.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Methodology and Approach
- Structure of the Book
- Chapter 1 From States of Emergency to Forms of the Political
- Schmitt and the Weimar Crisis
- Schmitt's Political Theology
- Evaluating Schmitt
- Chapter 2 Who Is the Subject of Political Theology?
- Ball contra Schmitt: The Limits of the Theological
- Strauss contra Schmitt: The Limits of the Political
- The Contemporary Subject of Political Theology after Schmitt
- Chapter 3 Person, Identity, Transformation
- The Path to Reconceptualization: The Pauline Interruption of Schmittian Political Theology
- Letter to Philemon: The Preliminary Reconceptualization
- Excursus on Onesimus
- On Fraternity
- The Universal
- Chapter 4 Political Theology and the Anthropocene
- Schmitt in the Age of the Anthropocene
- Decentering the Human: God, Men, and Animals
- The Political Challenge of Gaia and Ecopolitical Theology
- Chapter 5 Technology as Political Theology
- The Schmittian Concept of Technology
- Technology as Schmittian Political Theology
- Sloterdijk and Schmitt: From Distance to Affinity
- Stiegler: the Implicit Critique of Technology as Schmittian Political Theology
- Chapter 6 Political Theology and Democratic Constitutionalism
- The Prolegomena: The Critique of the Relationship between Catholicism and National Socialism
- The Secular State and the Böckenförde-Diktum
- The Return to Schmitt I: Rethinking the State as an Ethical State
- An Excursus on Civil Religion
- The Return to Schmitt II: Rethinking the State of Exception
- Sin, Enmity, and the Böckenförde-Diktum
- Chapter 7 Political Theology and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Constitutionalism
- Political Theology and Post-industrial Society
- Populism and Political Theology
- Post-secular Political Emancipation
- A Political Theology of Emancipation
- Messianism and Radical Politics
- Chapter 8 Katechon and the Problem of Order
- The Coming Barbarism
- The Power That Restrains
- Care for the World
- Cosmopolitical Theology
- Conclusion
- Coda
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438493459
- 1438493452
- OCLC:
- 1385455039
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