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  title info:
    title: Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics
  name:
    name part: Welchman, Alistair.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 191 p. online resource.
  abstract: The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers—Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in particular Simon Critchley—have begun to explore a more productive engagement of the religious and the political in which religion features as a possible or even necessary form of human emancipation. The papers in this collection, deriving from a workshop held on and with Simon Critchley at the University of Texas at San Antonio in February 2010, take up the ways in which religion’s encounter with politics transforms not only politics but also religion itself, molding it into various religions of politics, including not just heretical religious metaphysics, but also what Critchley describes as non-metaphysical religion, the faith of the faithless. Starting from Critchley’s own genealogy of Pauline faith, the articles in this collection explore and defend some of the religions of politics and their implications. Costica Bradatan teases out the implications of Critchley’s substitution of humor for tragedy as the vehicle for the minimal self-distancing required for any politics. Jill Stauffer compares Critchley’s non-metaphysical religiosity with Charles Taylor’s account of Christianity. Alistair Welchman unpacks the political theology of the border in terms of god’s timeless act of creation. Anne O’Byrne explores the subtle dialectic between mores and morality in Rousseau’s political ethics. Roland Champagne sees a kind non-metaphysical religion in Arendt’s category of the political pariah. Davide Panagia presents Critchley’s ethics of exposure as the basis for a non-metaphysical political bond. Philip Quadrio wonders about the political ramifications of Critchley’s own ‘mystical anarchism’ and Tina Chanter re-reads the primal site in the Western tradition at which the politi…
  table of contents: Introduction, A. Welchman -- An Aphoristic Memoir: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Philosophy for Life, A-M. Bowery -- Rethinking Disenchantment and Poesis: Interpreting the Resistance to the Political in Critchley’s Call for Re-Enchantment, T. Chante -- How Much Does That Weigh? Lévinas and the Possibility of Human Rights, J. Stauffer -- To Die Laughing: On Irony and Humor in Limit Situations, C. Bradatan -- You are not your own: On the Nature of Faith, S. Critchley -- Simon Critchley’s Problem of Politics and Hannah Arendt’s Idealism for the USA, R. Champagne -- Contested States: Capital, Resistance and Power, P. Lewis -- Exposures and Projections: Simon Critchley’s Ethics of Appearances, D. Panagia -- Cosmology, Anthropology and Politics: Reflections on Rousseau and ‘Mystical Anarchism’, P. Quadrio -- Protest Politics and Para-Ontology, A. Welchman -- The Sewing Circles of Geneva: Mores, Morals and Moralizing in Political Life, A. O’Byrne.
  note: edited by Alistair Welchman.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  classification: BL51
  classification: 210
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9789401794480
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0
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