The Politics to Come : Power, Modernity and the Messianic.
Title:
The Politics to Come : Power, Modernity and the Messianic.
Author:
Bradley, Arthur.
ISBN:
9781441196620
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Series:
Continuum Studies in Religion and Political Culture
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Politics to Come: A History of Futurity -- Part One: Promises -- Chapter 1: The Messianic Now: A Secular Response -- Chapter 2: Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'?: A Response to Richard Beardsworth -- Chapter 3: A Brief Response to Adam Thurschwell's 'Politics without the Messianic or a "Messianic without Messianism"?' -- Part Two: Genealogies -- Chapter 4: Messianic Deposition: Representation and the Flight of the Gods -- Chapter 5: Towards Perpetual Revolution: Kant on Freedom and Authority -- Chapter 6: Hegel's Messianic Reasoning and its Theological Politics -- Chapter 7: Before the Anti-Christ is Revealed: On the Katechontic Structure of Messianic Time -- Chapter 8: The Weakness of Our 'Messianic Power': Kristeva on Sacrifice -- Part Three: Futures -- Chapter 9: The Holocaust and the Messianic -- Chapter 10: Economies of Promise: On Caesar and Christ -- Chapter 11: 'Something Unique is Afoot in Europe': Derrida Reading Kant -- Chapter 12: The Theocracy to Come: Deconstruction, Autoimmunity, Islam -- Chapter 13: Violences of the Messianic -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The Politics to Come brings together an international collection of thinkers to consider the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. It examines the explosive threats the liberal order confronts today: financial meltdown, religious extremism, environmental catastrophe. Yet, it also seeks to place these - singularly modern - crises within a much longer history. For the contributors to this collection, it is the ancient religious tradition called 'the messianic' that provides the critical lens through which modernity may be interrogated. In its ongoing struggles with the messianic, liberal modernity confronts the promise and threat of a radically new Politics to Come. So what are the Politics to Come? How do they manifest themselves throughout history? Why does the possibility of a messianic judgement continue to haunt the western political imaginary? This collection offers a series of political, philosophical and theological perspectives from which the future of liberal modernity - if it has one - can be imagined.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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