Force of God

Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

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ID20032704
AuthorsCarl Raschke (0000-0003-0405-8878, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages208
Publication date2015-09-08
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueForce of God (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherColumbia University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7312/columbia/9780231173841.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236816154
Open LibraryOL27520224M
ISBN9780231173841
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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

Critical theory · Democracy · Epistemology · Faith · Fanaticism · Hegelianism · Materialism · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Theology · Value (mathematics) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Religious studies · Religion and politics · Religious aspects

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