Radical Political Theology

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-14983-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

Reihe: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology. This collapse contributed to the decline of modern liberalism, which supported a neutral, value-free space for capitalism. It also deeply unsettled political, religious, and philosophical realms, forced to confront the conceptual stakes of a return to religion.
Gamely intervening in a contest that defies simple resolutions, Clayton Crockett conceives of the postmodern convergence of the secular and the religious as a basis for emancipatory political thought. Engaging themes of sovereignty, democracy, potentiality, law, and event from a religious and political point of view, Crockett articulates a theological vision that responds to our contemporary world and its theo-political realities. Specifically, he claims we should think about God and the state in terms of potentiality rather than sovereign power. Deploying new concepts, such as Slavoj Žižek's idea of parallax and Catherine Malabou's notion of plasticity, his argument engages with debates over the nature and status of religion, ideology, and messianism. Tangling with the work of Derrida, Deleuze, Spinoza, Antonio Negri, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, and Catherine Keller, Crockett concludes with a reconsideration of democracy as a form of political thought and religious practice, underscoring its ties to modern liberal capitalism while also envisioning a more authentic democracy unconstrained by those ties.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crockett, Clayton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Freedom of Radical Theology After the Death of God1. The Parallax of Religion: Theology and Ideology2. Sovereignty and the Weakness of God3. Baruch Spinoza and the Potential for a Radical Political Theology4. Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the Theo-Political Problem of Liberalism5. Elements for Radical Democracy: Plasticity, Equality, and Governmentality6. Law Beyond Law: Agamben, Deleuze, and the Unconscious Event7. Radical Theology and the Event: St. Paul with Deleuze8. Plasticity and the Future of Theology: Messianicity and the Deconstruction of ChristianityConclusion: Six Theses on Political TheologyNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Clayton Crockett is associate professor of philosophy and director of religious studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event and Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory, and is coeditor of Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and the Dialectic.