Political Theology Today: 100 Years after Carl Schmitt

ISBN-13: 9781350344501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str.

Denmark) Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School; Denmark) Lotte List (Copenhagen Business School; Denmark) Stefan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School

Opis

Almost 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt gave his controversial definition of the sovereign as the one who decides on the exception in his by now classic Political Theology (1922). Written at a time of crisis, the book sought to establish the institution of sovereignty, not from within a well-functioning governing machine of the state in a situation of normality, but rather as the minimal condition of state order in the moment of governmental breakdown. The book appeared anachronistic already at its publication. Schmitt went against Max Weber’s popular thesis defining secularization as a disenchantment of the world characterizing modern societies, and instead suggested that the concepts of modern politics mirrored a metaphysics originating in Christianity and the church. Nevertheless, the concept of political theology has in recent years seen a revival as a field of research in philosophy as well as political theory, as studies in the theological sub-currents of politics, economics and sociality proliferate.

Spis treści

Introduction Mitchell Dean, Lotte List, Stefan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Section 1: State, Democracy and Violence 1. What’s left of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology? Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) 2. The populist promise in Carl Schmitt’s political theology Tim Christiaens (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) 3. Political atheism: towards a profane reconceptualization of the modern state Mikkel Flohr (Roskilde University, Denmark) Section 2: Theology, Religion and the Public Sphere 4. Rituals of truth: oath, public discussion, acclamation Montserrat Herrero (University of Navarra, Spain) 5. Atheism, postsecularism and the legitimacy of democracy Miguel Vatter (Deakin University, Australia) 6. Political theology, values and LGBTQ+ as civil religion Stefan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Section 3: Modernity, History and Time 7. Crisis sovereignty: political metaphysics in crisis times Lotte List (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) 8. One world: history and space in Schmitt’s post-war political theology Nicholas Heron (The University of Queensland, Australia) 9. Explosive publics in the interzones of political theology and political mythology Christiane Mossin (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Section 4: Beyond the European Gaze 10. Toward a political theology of postcoloniality Kwok Pui-lan (Emory University, USA) 11. Political theology and uncertainty in international relations William Bain (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Coda to Section 4: Asia and the political theology turn: revisiting and overcoming Schmitt in the centenary Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews, UK) Index