Theology and World Politics: Metaphysics, Genealogies, Political Theologies

ISBN-13: 9783030376048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 349 str.

Vassilios Paipais

Spis treści

Chapter 1

Introduction: Religion or Theology? (re)introducing political theology into the study of world politics 

Vassilios Paipais

PART I Metaphysics

Chapter 2

‘Obligations written in the heart’: Burke’s primacy of association and the renewal of political theology

Adrian Pabst

Chapter 3

The Political Theology of Thomas Hobbes and the Theory of Interstate Society

William Bain

Chapter 4

A Matter of Faith: Derrida, Žižek, and The Fourth ‘Overcoming of Gnosis’ 

Agata Bielik-Robson

Chapter 5

The Cosmology of Mādhyamaka Buddhism and its World of Deep Relationalism

Shannon Brincat

PART II Genealogies

Chapter 6

Between Transcendence and Necessity: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight and the crisis of modern international relations

Nicholas Rengger

Chapter 7

Political Theology and Sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in Our Times

Mustapha Kamal Pasha

Chapter 8

The Nation, the Nations and the Third Nation: The political essence of early Christianity

György Geréby

Chapter 9

On a Stasis of Memory or Disrupting the Postliminium

Ilias Papagiannopoulos

PART III Political Theologies

Chapter 10

Total War and Limited Government: the German Catholic Debate at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Michael Hollerich

Chapter 11

Love as a Practice of Peace: the political theologies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and King

Liane Hartnett

Chapter 12

Reading Kant in the Light of Political Theology

Sean Molloy

Chapter 13

Religiosity with/out Religion: Hans J. Morgenthau, Disenchantment and International Politics

John-Harmen Valk

O autorze

Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).

Blurb

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology. Contributions to this collection highlight the political theological foundations of international theory and world politics, recasting theology and politics as symbiotic discourses with all the risks, promises and open questions this relation may involve. The overarching claim the book makes is that all politics has theology embedded in it, both in the genealogical sense of carrying ineradicable traces of rival theological traditions, and also in the more ontological sense of being enacted by alternative configurations of the theologico-political. The book is unique in bringing together a diverse group of scholars, spanning knowledge areas as varied as IR, political theory, philosophy, theology, and history to investigate the complex interconnections between theology and world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, international relations, intellectual history, and political theology.

Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).