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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817325903321

Autore

Dickinson Colby

Titolo

Agamben's coming philosophy : finding a new use for theology / / Colby Dickinson and Adam Kotsko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78348-402-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

195

Soggetti

Theology

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I: Agamben as a Reader of Benjamin; Chapter One: On the 'Coming Philosophy'; Chapter Two: Reading the 'Critique of Violence'; Chapter Three: Gestures of Text and Violence; Chapter Four: Citing 'Whatever' Authority; II: Futures of Political Theology; Chapter Five: Immanence as Revelation; Chapter Six: Agamben's Messianic Nihilism; Chapter Seven: The Divisions of Sovereignty; Chapter Eight: Perhaps Psychoanalysis?; III: Methods, Economies, Theologies; Chapter Nine: Genealogy and Political Theology; Chapter Ten: The 'Absence' of Gender

Chapter Eleven: The Theology of NeoliberalismChapter Twelve: Cur Deus Homo Sacer?; Chapter Thirteen: Paul and the Jewish Alternative; Chapter Fourteen: What Is to Be Done? The Endgame of the Homo Sacer Series; Conclusion: Finding a New Use for Theology; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>In this book, Dickson and Kotso examine Agamben's more recent theologically-focused writing and its implications for philosophical thought. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>