Theology and the Political

Theology and the Political

The New Debate, sic v

  • Autor: Davis, Creston; Milbank, John; Zizek, Slavoj; Williams, Rowan; Eagleton, Terry
  • Editor: Duke University Press
  • Col·lecció: [sic] Series
  • ISBN: 9780822334606
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822386490
  • Lloc de publicació:  Durham , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2005
  • Mes: Juny
  • Pàgines: 496
  • DDC: 201/.72
  • Idioma: Anglés
The essays in Theology and the Political—written by some of the world’s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics—analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political in light of the thought of figures ranging from Plato to Marx, Levinas to Derrida, and Augustine to Lacan. Together, the contributors challenge the belief that meaningful action is simply the successful assertion of will, that politics is ultimately reducible to “might makes right.” From a variety of perspectives, they suggest that grounding human action and politics in materialist critique offers revolutionary possibilities that transcend the nihilism inherent in both contemporary liberal democratic theory and neoconservative ideology.

Contributors. Anthony Baker, Daniel M. Bell Jr., Phillip Blond, Simon Critchley, Conor Cunningham, Creston Davis, William Desmond, Hent de Vries, Terry Eagleton, Rocco Gangle, Philip Goodchild, Karl Hefty, Eleanor Kaufman, Tom McCarthy, John Milbank, Antonio Negri, Catherine Pickstock, Patrick Aaron Riches, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Regina Mara Schwartz, Kenneth Surin, Graham Ward, Rowan Williams, Slavoj Žižek

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Rowan Williams
  • Part 1 Revolution and Theological Difference
    • Tragedy and Revolution Terry Eagleton
    • Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution Creston Davis and Patrick Aaron Riches
    • The ‘‘Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy’’
    • Nothing Is, Something Must Be: Lacan and Creationfrom No One Conor Cunningham
    • Revelation and Revolution Regina Mara Schwartz
  • Part 2 Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom
    • Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology Philip Goodchild
    • Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics William Desmond
    • Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy
    • Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment Daniel M. Bell Jr.
  • Part 3 Infinite Desire and the Political Subject
    • The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence Antonio Negri
    • Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Questionof Finding a New Kind of Political Subject Kenneth Surin
    • Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual Anthony Baker and Rocco Gangle
    • The Univocalist Mode of Production Catherine Pickstock
  • Part 4 Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology
    • The Commodification of Religion, or The Consummation of Capitalism GrahamWard
    • The Unbearable Withness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anti-ontotheology Mary-Jane Rubenstein
    • ‘‘To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough’’: Violence and theIncorporeal Eleanor Kaufman
    • The Two Sources of the ‘‘Theological Machine’’:Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity,War, and Terror Hent de Vries
  • Part 5 Theological Materialism
    • Materialism and Transcendence John Milbank
    • Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes Karl Hefty
    • The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theologica lMaterialism Phillip Blond
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index