The politics to come
Subtitle: power, modernity, and the Messianic
By: edited by Paul Fetcher and Arthur Bradley.
Contributors: Fletcher, Paul.; Bradley, Arthur.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781847063151
Subjects: Religion and politics; Messiah; Philosophy, Modern; Political science -- Philosophy
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The politics to come : a history of futurity / Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher; title: Part I: Promises; title: Messianic politics : a secular response / Richard Beardsworth; title: Politics without the Messianic or a Messianic without Messianism : a response to Richard Beardsworth / Adam Thurschwell; title: A brief response to Adam Thurschwell's politics without the Messianic or a Messianic without Messianism / Richard Beardsworth; title: Part II: Genealogies; title: Messianic deposition : representation and the flight of the gods / Laurence Paul Hemming; title: Toward perpetual revolution : Kant on freedom and authority / Paul Fletcher; title: Hegel's Messianic reasoning and its theological politics / Graham Ward; title: Before the anti-Christ is revealed : on the katechontic structure of Messianic time / Michael Hoelzl; title: The weakness of our Messianic power : Kristeva on sacrifice / Pamela Sue Anderson; title: Part III: Futures; title: The Holocaust and the Messianic / Robert Eaglestone; title: Economies of promise : on Caesar and Christ / Philip Goodchild; title: Something unique is afoot in Europe : Derrida reading Kant / Joanna Hodge; title: The theocracy to come : deconstruction, auto-immunity, Islam / Arthur Bradley; title: Violences of the Messianic / Michael Dillon.