Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-secular WorldHent de Vries, Lawrence Eugene Sullivan Preface / Hent de Vries and Lawrence E. Sullivan -- Introduction: before, around, and beyond the theologico-political / Hent de Vries -- What are political theologies? -- The gods of politics in early Greek cities / Marcel Detienne -- Church, state, resistance / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Politics and finitude : the temporal status of Augustine's Civitas permixta / M.B. Pranger -- The scandal of religion : Luther and public speech in the Reformation / Antónia Szabari -- On the names of God / Ernesto Laclau -- The permanence of the theologico-political? / Claude Lefort -- Violence in the state of exception : reflections on theologico-political motifs in Benjamin and Schmitt / Marc de Wilde -- Critique, coercion, and sacred life in Benjamin's "Critique of violence" / Judith Butler -- From Rosenzweig to Levinas : philosophy of war / Stéphane Mosès -- Levinas, Spinoza, and the theologico-political meaning of Scripture / Hent de Vries -- Beyond tolerance : pluralism and agonistic reason -- On the relation between the secular liberal state and religion / Jürgen Habermas -- Prepolitical moral foundations of a free republic / Pope Benedict XVI -- Bush's God talk / Bruce Lincoln -- Pluralism and faith / William E. Connolly -- Subjects of tolerance : why we are civilized and they are the barbarians / Wendy Brown -- Religion, liberal democracy, and citizenship / Chantal Mouffe -- Toleration without tolerance : enlightenment and the image of reason / Lars Tønder -- Saint John : the miracle of secular reason / Matthew Scherer -- Democratic republicanism, secularism, and beyond -- Reinhabiting civil disobedience / Bhrigupati Singh -- Rogue democracy and the hidden God / Samuel Weber -- Intimate publicities : retreating the theologico-political in the Chávez regime? / Rafael Sánchez -- The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed / Veena Das -- How to recognize a Moslem when you see one : Western secularism and the politics of conversion / Markha G. Valenta -- Laïcité or the politics of republican secularism / Yolande Jansen -- Trying to understand French secularism / Talal Asad -- Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the politics of tolerance in the Netherlands / Peter van der Veer -- Can a minority retain its identity in law? the 2005 Multatuli lecture / Job Cohen -- Prophetic justice in a home haunted by strangers : transgressive solidarity and trauma in the work of an Israeli rabbis' group / Bettina Prato -- Opening societies and the rights of the human -- Mysticism and the foundation of the open society : bergsonian politics / Paola Marrati -- The agency of assemblages and the North American blackout / Jane bennett -- Automatic theologies : surrealism and the politics of equality / Kate Khatib -- Theoscopy : transparency, omnipotence, and modernity / Stefanos Geroulanos -- Come on, humans, one more effort if you want to be post-christians! / Thierry de Duve -- The right not to use rights : human rights and the structure of judgments / Werner Hamacher. |
Contents
Before Around and Beyond | 1 |
WHAT ARE POLITICAL THEOLOGIES? | 89 |
Church State Resistance | 102 |
The Temporal Status of Augustines | 113 |
Luther and Public Speech in | 122 |
On the Names of | 137 |
The Permanence of the TheologicoPolitical? | 148 |
Reflections | 188 |
Rogue Democracy and the Hidden | 382 |
Retreating the TheologicoPolitical | 401 |
The Citizen as Sexed | 427 |
Western | 444 |
Laıcité or the Politics of Republican Secularism | 475 |
Trying to Understand French Secularism | 494 |
Pim Fortuyn Theo van Gogh and the Politics | 527 |
Can a Minority Retain Its Identity in Law? The 2005 | 539 |
Critique Coercion and Sacred Life in Benjamins | 201 |
Philosophy of | 220 |
Levinas Spinoza and the TheologicoPolitical Meaning | 232 |
PLURALISM | 249 |
Prepolitical Moral Foundations of a Free Republic | 261 |
Bushs God Talk | 269 |
Pluralism and Faith | 278 |
Why We Are Civilized and They | 298 |
Religion Liberal Democracy and Citizenship | 318 |
Enlightenment and | 327 |
The Miracle of Secular Reason | 341 |
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANISM | 363 |
OPENING SOCIETIES AND THE RIGHTS | 589 |
The Agency of Assemblages and the North American | 602 |
Surrealism and the Politics | 617 |
Transparency Omnipotence and Modernity | 633 |
Come On Humans One More Effort if You Want to | 652 |
Human Rights and | 671 |
Contributors 691 | 691 |
Notes | 697 |
vii | 698 |
viii | 738 |
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