Radical Democracy and Political Theology /
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 Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2011]
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Colección: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Radical Democracy
- 1. Democracy, More Or Less
- Interlude. Managing Democracy Abroad
- 2. Democracy, Radically Conceived
- Part Two. Political Theology
- 3. Political Theology and the Postsecular
- Interlude. The Iranian Revolution Redux
- 4. Political Theology, Beyond Despair
- 5. Political Theologies, or Finding an Alternative to Schmitt
- 6. The Theopolitics of Democracy
- Conclusion. From the One to the Many
- Notes
- Index