The politics to come : power, modernity, and the Messianic
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The politics to come : power, modernity, and the Messianic
（Continuum studies in religion and political culture）
Continuum, c2010
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Bibliography: p. [208]-220
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: The politics to come : a history of futurity / Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher
- The Messianic now : a secular response / Richard Beardsworth
- Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'? : a response to Richard Beardsworth / Adam Thurschwell
- A brief response to Adam Thurschwell's 'Politics without the Messianic or a "Messianic without Messianism"?' / Richard Beardsworth
- Messianic deposition : representation and the flight of the gods / Laurence Paul Hemming
- Toward perpetual revolution : Kant on freedom and authority / Paul Fletcher
- Hegel's Messianic reasoning and its theological politics / Graham Ward
- Before the anti-Christ is revealed : on the katechontic structure of Messianic time / Michael Hoelzl
- The weakness of our 'Messianic power' : Kristeva on sacrifice / Pamela Sue Anderson
- The Holocaust and the Messianic / Robert Eaglestone
- Economies of promise : on Caesar and Christ / Philip Goodchild
- 'Something unique is afoot in Europe' : Derrida reading Kant / Joanna Hodge
- The theocracy to come : deconstruction, autoimmunity, Islam / Arthur Bradley
- Violences of the Messianic / Michael Dillon
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"The Politics to Come brings together an international collection of thinkers to consider the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. It examines the explosive threats the liberal order confronts today: financial meltdown, religious extremism, environmental catastrophe. Yet, it also seeks to place these - singularly modern - crises within a much longer history. For the contributors to this collection, it is the ancient religious tradition called 'the messianic' that provides the critical lens through which modernity may be interrogated. In its ongoing struggles with the messianic, liberal modernity confronts the promise and threat of a radically new Politics to Come. So what are the Politics to Come? How do they manifest themselves throughout history? Why does the possibility of a messianic judgement continue to haunt the western political imaginary? This collection offers a series of political, philosophical and theological perspectives from which the future of liberal modernity - if it has one - can be imagined. "
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Questioning Political Religion. 1. Messianic Politics: A Secular Response, Richard Beardsworth (American University of Paris, France)
- 2. Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'?: A Response to Richard Beardswiorth, Adam Thurschwell (Cleveland State University, USA)
- 3. 'Messianic Power' for a Secular Generation, Pamela Sue Anderson (University of Oxford, UK)
- 4. Are We Really Secular?: The Limits of la-vie-la-mort, Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
- Part II: Questioning Political Modernity
- 5. Economies of Promise: Fiscal and Christian, Philip Goodchild (University of Nottingham, UK)
- 6. Messianic Deposition: Representation and the Flight of the Gods, Lawrence Paul Hemming (University of London, UK)
- 7. Liberal Peace and Endemic (Messianic) Insecurity, Michael Dillon (Lancaster University, UK)
- 8. Pre-Secular Philosophy: Deconstruction, Messianism, Secularism, Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University, UK)
- Part III: Historical and Theoretical Analyses
- 9. Hegel: The Messianic and the Dialectic of Secularism, Graham Ward (University of Manchester, UK)
- 10. The Politics of Grace: Hobbes and Redemption from Nature, Paul Fletcher (Lancaster University, UK)
- 11. Minimal Messianity in Benjamin, Werner Hamacher (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
- 12. The Kat-echon and Schmitt, Michael Hoelzl (University of Manchester, UK)
- 13. Weak Messianic Power and the Holocaust, Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK).
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