UID:
almahu_9949203650402882
Format:
1 online resource (280 pages) :
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colour illustrations.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350079496
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9781350079489
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9781350079458
Series Statement:
Political theologies
Content:
"What is political modernity? And how much of its concepts and structures has changed or remained the same with the advent of the so-called globalization? What does it mean, from a political perspective, that we live in a postmodern era? This book discusses these issues in light of the key authors and texts of the continental philosophical tradition: from Carl Schmitt to Giorgio Agamben, from Thomas Hobbes to Michel Foucault. Looking at the roots of the current historical crisis that characterizes Western political regimes, this book gazes into the past in order to trace the possible development of our current global era, in which all the classical concepts and our symbolic resources seem to be called into question, leaving a vacuum of meaning for political action as much as for political theory."
Note:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Walking Tree -- Part I: On Sovereignty: -- 1. Rex sacrorum: On the Origins and Evolution of Sovereign Power -- 2. Space and Sovereignty: A Reverse Perspective -- Part II: Political Theologies -- 3. Encounters at the End of a World: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and the Tyranny of Values -- 4. Until the End of the World: René Girard, Carl Schmitt, and the Origins of Violence -- 5. Religion and Political Form: Schmitt contra Habermas -- Part III: History and Archaeology: -- 6. The Myth of Origin: Archaeology and History in the Work of Giorgio Agamben and René Girard -- 7. Imago mortis, imago Dei: An Archaeology of Political Sacrifice -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350079496
URL:
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