Theology and the Political
Subtitle: The New Debate
Contributors: Creston Davis (Editor); John Milbank (Editor); Slavoj Zizek (Editor)
Series: SIC, 5
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780822334729
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Religious; Capitalism; Religion, Politics & State; Religious aspects; Christianity; Philosophy; Religion - Socialissues; Christianity and politics; Theology; Cultural Studies; Religious Studies; Religion - Contemporary Issues; Religion and politics
Description: The essays in *Theology and the Political*—written by some of the world’s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics—analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political in light of the thought of figures ranging from Plato to Marx, Levinas to Derrida, and Augustine to Lacan. Together, the contributors challenge the belief that meaningful action is simply the successful assertion of will, that politics is ultimately reducible to “might makes right.” From a variety of perspectives, they suggest that grounding human action and politics in materialist critique offers revolutionary possibilities that transcend the nihilism inherent in both contemporary liberal democratic theory and neoconservative ideology.

*Contributors:* Anthony Baker, Daniel M. Bell Jr., Phillip Blond, Simon Critchley, Conor Cunningham, Creston Davis, William Desmond, Hent de Vries, Terry Eagleton, Rocco Gangle, Philip Goodchild, Karl Hefty, Eleanor Kaufman, Tom McCarthy, John Milbank, Antonio Negri, Catherine Pickstock, Patrick Aaron Riches, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Regina Mara Schwartz, Kenneth Surin, Graham Ward, Rowan Williams, Slavoj Žižek

(Source: [Duke University Press](https://www.dukeupress.edu/theology-and-the-political))
Table of contents: title: Contents
pagenum: x; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: Introduction, Rowan Williams
pagenum: 1; label: Part 1
title: Revolution and Theological Difference; title: Tragedy and Revolution, Terry Eagleton
pagenum: 7; title: Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution, Creston Davis and Patrick Aaron Riches
pagenum: 22; title: The “Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy”, Slavoj Zizek
pagenum: 52; title: Nothing I, Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One, Conor Cunningham
pagenum: 72; title: Revelation and Revolution, Regina Mara Schwartz
pagenum: 102; label: Part 2
title: Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom; title: Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology, Philip Goodehild
pagenum: 127; title: Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Polities, William Desmond
pagenum: 153; title: Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money, Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy
pagenum: 183; title: Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment, Daniel M. Bell Jr.
pagenum: 200; label: Part 3
title: Infinite Desire and the Political Subject; title: “The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence, Antonio Negri
pagenum: 231; title: Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Subject, Kenneth Surin
pagenum: 240; title: Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual, Anthony Baker and Rocco Gangle
pagenum: 267; title: The Univocalist Mode of Production, Catherine Pickstock
pagenum: 281; label: Part 4
title: Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology; title: The Commodification of Religion, or The Consummation of Capitalism, Graham Ward
pagenum: 327; title: The Unbearable Withness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anti-ontotheology, Mary Jane Rubenstein
pagenum: 340; title: “To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough”: Violence and the Incorporeal Eleanor Kaufman
pagenum: 350; title: The Two Sources of the “Theological Machine”: Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror, Hent de Vries
pagenum: 366; label: Part 5
title: Theological Materialism; title: Materialism and Transcendence, John Milbank
pagenum: 303; title: Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes, Karl Hefty
pagenum: 427; title: The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism, Phillip Blond
pagenum: 430; title: Notes on Contributors
pagenum: 463; title: Index
pagenum: 467