The politics to come : power, modernity and the messianic / / edited by Arthur Bradley and Paul Fetcher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456705603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-4725-4948-1; 1-282-59077-4; 9786612590771; 1-4411-9662-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Collana: Continuum studies in religion and political culture
• Disciplina: 201/.72
• Soggetti: Messiah; Philosophy, Modern; Political science - Philosophy; Religion and politics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [208]-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : The Politics to Come: A History of Futurity / Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher -- Part 1. Promises. Chapter 1. The Messianic Now : A Secular Response / Richard Beardsworth ; Chapter 2. Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'? : A Response to Richard Beardsworth / Adam Thurschwell ; Chapter 3. A Brief Response to Adam Thurschwell's 'Politics without the Messianic or a "Messianic without Messianism"?' / Richard Beardsworth -- Part 2. Genealogies. Chapter 4. Messianic Deposition : Representation and the Flight of the Gods / Laurence Paul Hemming ; Chapter 5. Towards Perpetual Revolution : Kant on Freedom and Authority / Paul Fletcher ; Chapter 6. Hegel's Messianic Reasoning and its Theological Politics / Graham Ward ; Chapter 7. Before the Anti-Christ is Revealed : On the Katechontic Structure of Messianic Time / Michael Hoelzl ; Chapter 8. The Weakness of Our 'Messianic Power' : Kristeva on Sacrifice / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Part 3. Futures. Chapter 9. The Holocaust and the Messianic / Robert Eaglestone ; Chapter 10. Economies of P romise : On ; Caesar and Christ / Philip Goodchild ; Chapter 11. 'Something Unique is Afoot in Europe' : Derrida Reading Kant / Joanna Hodge ; Chapter 12. The Theocracy to Come : Deconstruction, Autoimmunity, Islam / Arthur Bradley ; Chapter 13. Violences of the Messianic / Michael Dillon -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.

The epic imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : political power and its legitimations in eighteenth-century German literature / / Charlton Payne

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788690303321
• Autore: Payne Charlton
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-62831-7; 3-11-027199-0; 9786613940766
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: Studien zur deutschen Literatur, , 0081-7236 ; ; Bd. 197
• Classificazione: GI 1431
• Disciplina: 830.9/35827
• Soggetti: German literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Politics and literature - Germany - History - 18th century; Epic literature, German - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature -- 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics -- 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias -- Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou -- 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. -- 4. Wieland's Parodic Humanism -- Epilogue: Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics ; explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities.