Democracy and the Divine (eBook)

The Phenomenon of Political Romanticism

Alexandra Aidler (Autor)

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2019
300 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498598293 (ISBN)

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Advancing the thesis that a contract between the political members of a community must lead to the highest form of social inclusion, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (1651) has provided the groundwork for democracies around the world. Yet, Hobbes also states that this contract can only be upheld by a strong sovereign whose authority is derived from God. How can a democracy be defined, then, as truly inclusive when it essentially grows out of a theocracy that thinks about human beings in terms of "e;reduction"e;? In Democracy and the Divine: The Phenomenon of Political Romanticism Alexandra Aidler argues that despite modern democracy's problematic heritage, one should not abandon its claims to religion. Articulating a democracy that is based on the religious principle of giving oneself to another, Aidler develops a political theology of democracy that is built upon two traditions in political thought that have rarely been examined thus far side by side for their contributions to this field: German Romanticism, as exemplified by Franz von Baader and Friedrich Schlegel, and the "e;theological turn"e; in French philosophy, as represented by Jacques Derrida and Jacques Ranciere.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Continental Philosophy • contract theory • Derrida • Franz von Baader • French Philosophy • Friedrich Schlegel • German philosophy • German Studies • history of ideas • History of Philosophy • Hobbes • Jacques Derrida • Jacques Rancière • Jewish Studies • Modern European Philosophy • modern theology • Political Philosophy • Political Romanticism • Political Theology • political theory • Postmodernism • Ranciere • Rancière • Romanticism • Schlegel • Singularity • Sovereignty • von Baader
• ISBN-13: 9781498598293 / 9781498598293