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Political Theology
Diamantides, Marinos; Schutz, Anton
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Description for Political Theology
Hardback. This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. Series: Encounters in Law and Philosophy. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM2; HRLB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. While accepting that foundational issues of religions weigh heavier than political philosophy's aspirations, the authors question the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt's political theology, building instead upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben's close-reading of Christian government as management. The book identifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudence and concludes that the West's secular universality is passing off as politics or law what is really the management of its own dwindling primacy.
This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. While accepting that foundational issues of religions weigh heavier than political philosophy's aspirations, the authors question the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt's political theology, building instead upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben's close-reading of Christian government as management. The book identifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudence and concludes that the West's secular universality is passing off as politics or law what is really the management of its own dwindling primacy.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
Encounters in Law and Philosophy
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748697762
SKU
V9780748697762
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About Diamantides, Marinos; Schutz, Anton
Marinos Diamantides is Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of The Ethics of Suffering (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of Islam, Law and Identity (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011) and Law, Levinas, Politics Routledge-Cavendish, 2009). Anton Schutz is a senior lecturer in law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is editor of Law, Text, Terror with Peter ... Read more
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