Radical Democracy and Political Theology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20006608
AutoresJeffrey W Robbins (autor de correspondencia), Jeffrey Robbins
Año2013
Páginas232
Fecha de publicación2013-11-19
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaRadical Democracy and Political Theology (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialColumbia University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7312/columbia/9780231156363.001.0001
OpenAlexW650243998
Open LibraryOL28511404M
ISBN9780231156363
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that “the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe,” unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to this book, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of modern democratic power, which does not rest with a sovereign authority but operates as a diffuse social force. By linking radical democratic theory to a contemporary fascination with political theology, the book envisions the modern experience of democracy as a social, cultural, and political force transforming the nature of sovereign power and political authority. The text joins this work with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's radical conception of “network power,” as well as Sheldon Wolin's notion of “fugitive democracy,” to fashion a political theology that captures modern democracy's social and cultural torment. This approach has profound implications not only for the nature of contemporary religious belief and practice but also for the reconceptualization of the proper relationship between religion and politics. Challenging the modern, liberal, and secular assumption of a neutral public space, this text conceives of a postsecular politics for contemporary society that inextricably links religion to the political. While effectively recasting the tradition of radical theology as a political theology, this book also develops a comprehensive critique of the political theology bequeathed by Carl Schmitt

Democracy · Environmental ethics · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Sovereignty · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · carl Schmitt (1888-1985) · Christianity · Death of god theology · Religious aspects · religious aspects, christianity · Theology, doctrinal