In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy

Published by De Gruyter 2021

In Need of a Master

Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy

Edited by: Dominik Finkelde and Rebekka Klein

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699241

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The volume In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy discusses how our so-called "postmodern age" of widespread ideological critique paves the way for reactionary and conservative political movements. At center stage is the question of whether these movements can and must be – contrary to widespread beliefs among liberal elites – interpreted both as a symptom of a political awakening in the horizon of political theology in our era of immanence, as well as perhaps the perilous end of democracy as we know it. The book brings to the fore political theology as the hidden agenda of politics and presents at the same time Christian and Jewish theological traditions as an antidote to a global empire with its often unacknowledged rule of immanence.

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Dominik Finkelde, Munich School of Philosophy, Germany; Rebekka Klein, Bochum University, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Political Theologies in the Era of Immanence Dominik Finkelde and Rebekka A. Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Figurations of the Master
Sklaven ohne Herrn Goethes Faust als moderner Führer Clemens Pornschlegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Sovereignty Figures in the History of the ‘Finance Regime’ Joseph Vogl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Im Namen des Vaters Ino Augsberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Spinoza on the Death of the Master The Hebrew Theocracy after Moses Dimitris Vardoulakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Enmity as Cast Shadow of Love Conjectures on Moral-Political Self-Radicalizations in the Protestant Theo-Political Imaginary Günter Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Meister, Väter und Surrogate Meister, Väter und Surrogate Burkhard Liebsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
II Identity – Diversity – Singularity
Cis: The Rightist Appropriation of Identity Politics and its Boundaries Luca Di Blasi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
In Need of A Master On the Failure of Radical Democracy in the Era of Liberal-Democratic Authoritarianism Dominik Finkelde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Sovereignty of Subversion Or: The Masterfulness of the Democratic Revolution Rebekka A. Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Total Fidelity? About the Exclusivity of the Excluded Rasmus Nagel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
III Post-Political Theology
Das Relative als das Absolute? Das Politische zwischen Kontingenz und Verkörperung Philipp Stoellger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Theopolitics Today The Crisis of the Symbolic Order John Milbank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Smashing Words Prophetic Words and Alternative Political Theologies Daniel Weidner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
On the Abuses and Uses of Political Theology Schmitt, Arendt, and the ‘Trump Moment’ Florian Grosser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Forscher/-innen der Fachgebiete Politische Theologie und Politische Philosophie, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftler/-innen
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 322
Keywords: Political Theolgy; Plurality; Authoritarianism; Democracy

eBook

Published: May 10, 2021
ISBN: 9783110699241

Hardcover

Published: May 10, 2021
ISBN: 9783110699050

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111104614