Political Theology: Demystifying the Universal

ISBN-13: 9780748697779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str.

Marinos Diamantides;Anton Schütz

Opis

Can secularisation in the legal and political domains settle modernity's scores with religion?

Anton Schutz and Marinos Diamantides provide a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history.

Spis treści

Introduction: Premises and Arguments; Part 1: Religions R Us; 1. From Sovereignty to Negeschatology; 2. Social Systems on the Cross; 3. The Religion of Progress; 4. Political Theology beyond Schmitt; Part 2: Historicised Political Theology; 5. From Jerusalem to Rome via Constantinople; 6. The Transition from Secularism to Post-Secularism; 7. Deeds Without Words; Notes, Index.