Davis / Milbank / Zizek Theology and the Political

The New Debate, sic v
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8649-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 5, 491 Seiten

Reihe: SIC

A reassertion o fthe importance of theology to political action that goes beyond both liberal democratic theory and neoconservatism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Creston

Milbank, John

Zizek, Slavoj

Weitere Mitwirkende

Williams, Rowan

Eagleton, Terry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction / Rowan Williams 1

Part I. Revolution and Theological Difference

Tragedy and Revolution / Terry Eagleton 7

Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution / Creston Davis and Patrick Aaron Riches 22

The “Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy” / Slavoj Zizek 52

Nothing is Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One / Conor Cunningham 72

Revelation and Revolution / Regina Mara Schwartz 102

Part 2. Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom

Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology / Philip Goodchild 127

Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics / William Desmond 153

Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money / Simon Chritchley and Tom McCarthy 183

Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment / Daniel M. Bell Jr. 200

Part 3. Infinite Desire and the Political Subject

The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence / Antonio Negri 231

Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject / Kenneth Surin 240

Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual / Anthony Baker and Rocco Gangle 267

The Univocalist Mode of Production / Catherine Pickstock 281

Part 4. Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology

The Unbearable Withness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anit-ontotheology / Mary-Jane Rubenstein 340

“To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough”: Violence and the Incorporeal / Elanor Kaufman 350

The Two Sources of the “Theological Machine: Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror / Hent de Vries 366

Part 5. Theological Materialism

Materialism and Transcendence / John Milbank 393

Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes / Karl Hefty 427

The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism / Phillip Blond 439

Notes on Contributors 463

Index 467

Über Autor(innen)

Creston Davis is a doctoral candidate in philosophical theology at the University of Virginia.John Milbank is a professor of religion, politics, and ethics at the University of Nottingham. His books include Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon and Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason.Slavoj Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, editor of Cogito and the Unconscious: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, and coeditor of Perversion and the Social Relation and Gaze and Voice as Love Objects, all also published by Duke University Press.