This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history.
Über den Autor
Marinos Diamantides is Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of The Ethics of Suffering (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of Islam, Law and Identity (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011) and Law, Levinas, Politics (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009).
Anton Schütz is a senior lecturer in law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is editor of Law, Text, Terror with Peter Goodrich and Lior Barshak, (Routledge-Cavendish, 2006) and a contributing author to many works on legal theory including: The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Premises and Arguments; Part 1: Religions R Us; 1. From Sovereignty to Negeschatology; 2. Social Systems on the Cross; 3. The Religion of Progress; 4. Political Theology beyond Schmitt; Part 2: Historicised Political Theology; 5. From Jerusalem to Rome via Constantinople; 6. The Transition from Secularism to Post-Secularism; 7. Deeds Without Words; Notes, Index.
Klappentext
[SERIES BLURB]nCan secularisation in the legal and political domains settle modernity's scores with religion?nThis book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalization/secularization thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. While accepting that foundational issues of religions weigh heavier than political philosophy's aspirations, the authors question the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt's political theology, building instead upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben's close-reading of Christian government as management. The book identifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudence and concludes that the West's secular universality is passing off as politics or law what is really the management of its own dwindling primacy.nnMarinos Diamantides is Reader in Law at Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. His research lies at the intersection of public law and social and political theories, philosophy, anthropology and ethics. His publications include The Ethics of Suffering: Modern Law, Philosophy and Medicine (2000), Levinas, Law, Politics (2007) and Islam, Law and Identity (2011).nAnton Schütz is Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. He is director of the London-based research centre dealing with political theology (CRIPT). He has published many articles and edited collections on the comparative genealogy of norms and anti-normative movements in Western-Christian history.
