Force of God

Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-17384-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

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

For theorists in search of a political theology that is more responsive to the challenges now facing Western democracies, this book tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value. The political theology of the future, Carl Raschke argues, must draw on a powerful, hidden impetus the "force of God" to frame a new value economy. It must also embrace a radical, "faith-based" revolutionary style of theory that reconceives the power of the "theological" in political thought and action.

Raschke ties democracy's retreat to the West's failure to confront its decadence and mobilize its vast spiritual resources. Worsening debt, rising unemployment, and gross income inequality have led to a crisis in political representation and values that twentieth-century theorists never anticipated. Drawing on the thought of Hegel and Nietzsche as well as recent work by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Joseph Goux, Giorgio Agamben, and Alain Badiou, among others, Raschke recasts political theology for a new generation. He proposes a bold, uncompromising critical theory that acknowledges the enduring significance of Marx without his materialism and builds a vital, more spiritually grounded relationship between politics and the religious imaginary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raschke, Carl A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Theokratische und religiöse Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Historical and Theoretical Considerations1. Liberal Democracy and the Crisis of Representation2. Force of Thought3. Force of Art4. Force of the PoliticalPart 2. The Genealogy of Crisis5. Force and Economy6. Force of ExceptionPart 3. Toward a Political Theology in the Twilight of the Political7. Force of God8. The End of the Political9. God, the State, and RevolutionNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Raschke is professor of religious studies at the University of Denver, specializing in Continental philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the theory of religion. He is the author of Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body, GloboChrist, and Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory. Cofounder of the Global Art & Ideas Network, he is senior editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and current events editor for Political Theology Today.