Genealogies of Political Modernity

Dr. Antonio Cerella (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-07946-5 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

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.

Antonio Cerella is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and International Studies at Kingston University London, UK.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2020
Reihe/Serie	Political Theologies
Zusatzinfo	5 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-350-07946-4 / 1350079464
ISBN-13	978-1-350-07946-5 / 9781350079465
Zustand	Neuware