Political Theology Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

Name: Political Theology Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
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ISBN: 9780231153416

ISBN-10: 0231153414

ISBN-13: 9780231153416

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Kahn

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In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign.Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.82" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Why Political Theology Again



Definition of Sovereignty



The Problem of Sovereignty as the Problem of the Legal Form and of the Decision



Political Theology



On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the State


Conclusion: Political Theology and the End of Discourse


Notes


Index