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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794707403321

Autore

Diamantides Marinos

Titolo

Political theology : demystifying the universal / / Marinos Diamantides and Anton Schütz [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-4744-3515-7

0-7486-9778-0

0-7486-9779-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Encounters in law and philosophy

Disciplina

261.7

Soggetti

Political theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Premises and arguments -- Part I. Religions R us. From sovereignty to negeschatology -- Social systems on the cross -- The religion of progress -- Political theology beyond Schmitt -- Part 2. Historicised political theology. From Jerusalem to Rome via Constantinople -- The transition from secularism to post-secularism -- Deeds without words.

Sommario/riassunto

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.