In Need of a Master
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The volume In Need of a Master: Politics, Theology, and Radical Democracy discusses how our so-called "postmodern age" of widespread ideological critique paves the way for reactionary and conservative political movements. At center stage is the question of whether these movements can and must be - contrary to widespread beliefs among liberal elites - interpreted both as a symptom of a political awakening in the horizon of political theology in our era of immanence, as well as perhaps the perilous end of democracy as we know it. The book brings to the fore political theology as the hidden agenda of politics and presents at the same time Christian and Jewish theological traditions as an antidote to a global empire with its often unacknowledged rule of immanence.
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- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Political Theologies in the Era of Immanence
- I Figurations of the Master
- Sklaven ohne Herrn
- Sovereignty Figures in the History of the 'Finance Regime'
- Im Namen des Vaters
- Spinoza on the Death of the Master
- Enmity as Cast Shadow of Love
- Meister, Väter und Surrogate
- II Identity - Diversity - Singularity
- Cis: The Rightist Appropriation of Identity Politics and its Boundaries
- In Need of A Master
- The Sovereignty of Subversion
- Total Fidelity?
- III Post-Political Theology
- Das Relative als das Absolute?
- Theopolitics Today
- Smashing Words
- On the Abuses and Uses of Political Theology
- List of contributors
- Index
