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Beschreibung
What is political modernity? And how much of its concepts and structures has changed or remained the same with the advent of the so-called globalization? What does it mean, from a political perspective, that we live in a postmodern era? This book discusses these issues in light of the key authors and texts of the continental philosophical tradition: from Carl Schmitt to Giorgio Agamben, from Thomas Hobbes to Michel Foucault. Looking at the roots of the current historical crisis that characterizes Western political regimes, this book gazes into the past in order to trace the possible development of our current global era, in which all the classical concepts and our symbolic resources seem to be called into question, leaving a vacuum of meaning for political action as much as for political theory.
What is political modernity? And how much of its concepts and structures has changed or remained the same with the advent of the so-called globalization? What does it mean, from a political perspective, that we live in a postmodern era? This book discusses these issues in light of the key authors and texts of the continental philosophical tradition: from Carl Schmitt to Giorgio Agamben, from Thomas Hobbes to Michel Foucault. Looking at the roots of the current historical crisis that characterizes Western political regimes, this book gazes into the past in order to trace the possible development of our current global era, in which all the classical concepts and our symbolic resources seem to be called into question, leaving a vacuum of meaning for political action as much as for political theory.
Über den Autor
Antonio Cerella is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and International Studies at Kingston University London, UK.
Zusammenfassung
A contribution to timely, cutting edge issues (spatiality, political sacrifice, postsecularity, etc.) whose relevance is on the rise, but whose investigation is still underdeveloped
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Walking Tree

Part I: On Sovereignty:
1. Rex sacrorum: On the Origins and Evolution of Sovereign Power
2. Space and Sovereignty: A Reverse Perspective

Part II: Political Theologies
3. Encounters at the End of a World: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and the Tyranny of Values
4. Until the End of the World: René Girard, Carl Schmitt, and the Origins of Violence
5. Religion and Political Form: Schmitt contra Habermas

Part III: History and Archaeology:
6. The Myth of Origin: Archaeology and History in the Work of Giorgio Agamben and René Girard
7. Imago mortis, imago Dei: An Archaeology of Political Sacrifice

Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781350079472
ISBN-10: 1350079472
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cerella, Antonio
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Antonio Cerella
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 121912428

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