Politics of religion/Religions of politics / Alistair Welchman, editor.
The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers-Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in pa...
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Political Theologies Left and Right; Non-metaphysical Political Theology; Tragedy, Comedy and the Grounds of Political-Ethical Life; References; Chapter 2: You Are Not Your Own; Reformation; Paul℗þs Address; Troth-Plight, Faith as Proclamation; Crypto-Marcionism; Faith and Law; References; Chapter 3: Politics, Anthropology and Religion; Introduction; Problem One: Theology, Anthropology and Limited Horizons; Excursus: Some Reflections on Traditional Liberal Accounts of Secular Tolerance.
- Transition to ̀Mystical Anarchism℗þProblem Two: ̀Mystical Anarchism℗þ Anti-somatic and Anti-cosmic Dualism; Reflections on Mystical Anarchism; References; Chapter 4: Border Sovereignty; Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V; Part VI; References; Chapter 5: The Gossip Circles of Geneva: Morals, Mores and Moralizing in Political Life; References; Chapter 6: Nihilists, Heroes, Samaritans and I; Introduction; The Vertical Dimension; Are Good Acts Possible?; The Self and the Good; Tragedy and Comedy; Humorous Pacifism?; Christian Forgiveness?; Beyond the Rules; References.
- Chapter 7: Exposures and ProjectionsIntroduction; Part I: Exposure; Part II: Projection; References; Chapter 8: Simon Critchley℗þs Problem of Politics and Hannah Arendt℗þs Idealism for the USA; Introduction; The Stranger as Political Spectator; The Private in the Public; The Self-Conscious Pariah; Questioning Political Space; The Ethical in the Community; References; Chapter 9: The World as Farce; Prelude; The ̀Cosmic Farce℗þ Argument for God℗þs Existence; The Return of the Admission Ticket; God℗þs Playground; Ein Meister aus Zentral Europa; Surviving the Totalitarian Laughter; References.
- Chapter 10: Exhuming the Remains of Antigone℗þs TragedyReferences; Chapter 11: Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics; Index.