Political Theology Today

100 Years after Carl Schmitt

Mitchell Dean, Lotte List, Stefan Schwarzkopf (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34450-1 (ISBN)

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Almost 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt gave his controversial definition of the sovereign as the one who decides on the exception in his by now classic Political Theology (1922). Written at a time of crisis, the book sought to establish the institution of sovereignty, not from within a well-functioning governing machine of the state in a situation of normality, but rather as the minimal condition of state order in the moment of governmental breakdown. The book appeared anachronistic already at its publication. Schmitt went against Max Weber’s popular thesis defining secularization as a disenchantment of the world characterizing modern societies, and instead suggested that the concepts of modern politics mirrored a metaphysics originating in Christianity and the church. Nevertheless, the concept of political theology has in recent years seen a revival as a field of research in philosophy as well as political theory, as studies in the theological sub-currents of politics, economics and sociality proliferate.

Mitchell Dean is Head of the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is author of Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (2010), The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution (with Daniel Zamora, 2021) Lotte List is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her work has appeared in Theory, Culture & Society; Weimarer Beiträge; and in the Journal of Media, Cognition and Communication. Stefan Schwarzkopf is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Theory, Culture & Society; Organization; BioSocieties; Organization Studies; Business History; Journal of Historical Research in Marketing; and Journal of Cultural Economy. He is editor of the Routledge Handbook of Economic Theology (2020)

Introduction
Mitchell Dean, Lotte List, Stefan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

Section 1: State, Democracy and Violence
1. What’s left of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology?
Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

2. The populist promise in Carl Schmitt’s political theology
Tim Christiaens (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

3. Political atheism: towards a profane reconceptualization of the modern state
Mikkel Flohr (Roskilde University, Denmark)

Section 2: Theology, Religion and the Public Sphere
4. Rituals of truth: oath, public discussion, acclamation
Montserrat Herrero (University of Navarra, Spain)

5. Atheism, postsecularism and the legitimacy of democracy
Miguel Vatter (Deakin University, Australia)

6. Political theology, values and LGBTQ+ as civil religion
Stefan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

Section 3: Modernity, History and Time
7. Crisis sovereignty: political metaphysics in crisis times
Lotte List (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

8. One world: history and space in Schmitt’s post-war political theology
Nicholas Heron (The University of Queensland, Australia)

9. Explosive publics in the interzones of political theology and political mythology
Christiane Mossin (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Section 4: Beyond the European Gaze

10. Toward a political theology of postcoloniality
Kwok Pui-lan (Emory University, USA)

11. Political theology and uncertainty in international relations
William Bain (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Coda to Section 4: Asia and the political theology turn: revisiting and overcoming Schmitt in the centenary
Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews, UK)

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-350-34450-8 / 1350344508
ISBN-13	978-1-350-34450-1 / 9781350344501
Zustand	Neuware