Sovereignty and Event
The Political in John D. Caputo's Radical Theology
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2021
269 pages
978-3-16-159231-7 (ISBN)
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Calvin D. Ullrich trägt zur wachsenden Debatte über postmoderne Religionsverständnisse und zeitgenössische Politik bei. Er unternimmt eine eingehende Analyse des Werkes des amerikanischen Philosophen und Theologen John D. Caputo und spricht sich für die politische Bedeutung seines neuartigen Ansatzes der Theologie aus.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A. Protests, Masters, and Events
- I. Sovereignty
- II. The Event
- B. Notes on Methodology
- C. Outline of Chapters
- Chapter 1: Carl Schmitt, Sovereignty, and Democracy
- A. Introduction
- B. The Crisis of Liberal Democracy
- I. Three Examples in Democracy's Crisis
- II. The Postdemocratic Condition
- C. Schmitt's Political Theology
- I. The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations
- II. The Friend-Enemy Distinction
- III. Carl Schmitt's Concept of Sovereignty
- IV. Political Theology
- D. Schmitt's Eschatology
- I. Schmitt's Concept(s) of History
- II. The Katechon
- E. Radical Hermeneutics of Sovereignty?
- Chapter 2: Overcoming Metaphysics
- A. Introduction
- B. Heidegger's Critique of Scholasticism according to Caputo
- I. Metaphysics as the History of Being
- II. Identity and Difference
- III. Language
- IV. The 'Ereignis' in Time and Being
- C. The Mystical Element in Thomas Aquinas
- I. The Early Greeks: Anaximander
- II. Heraclitus and Parmenides
- III. Re-reading the Metaphysics of esse
- D. Heidegger against Heidegger
- I. The 'upon-which' in Being and Time
- II. Cold Hermeneutics
- III. Demythologized Heidegger and the turn to Derrida
- Chapter 3: The Il/logic of the sans
- A. Introduction
- B. Postmodernism, Derrida, and Différance
- I. Postmodernism
- II. Jacques Derrida
- III. Différance
- C. Ethics sans Ethics
- I. Against Ethics
- II. Heteromorphism vs Heteronomism
- III. Anthropologia Negativa
- D. Religion sans Religion
- I. The Apophatic
- II. Translatability
- Chapter 4: From Radical Religion to Radical Theology
- A. Introduction
- B. The Messianic
- C. The Gift of Apocalypse
- I. Apocalypse without Apocalypse
- II. The Gift of Givenness
- III. The Gift without Givenness
- IV. Derrida's Religion
- D. Radical Theology
- I. The Quasi-Structure of 'Name-Event'
- II. The Death of God, Theology, and Justice
- III. God without Sovereignty
- Chapter 5: The Event of Sovereignty
- A. Introduction
- B. Sovereignty without Sovereignty
- I. The Friend-Enemy Deconstruction
- II. Between Law and Justice
- III. Sovereignty, Autoimmunity, and the Democracy to Come
- C. Theological Materialisms: Badiou, Agamben, Zizek
- I. Alain Badiou
- II. Giorgio Agamben
- III. Slavoj Zizek
- D. The Theo-poetics of Radical Political Theology
- I. The 'Poetics' of Theo-poetics
- II. The 'Theos' of Theo-poetics
- III. The Three Pills of Theo-poetics
- IV. Avoiding the Third-Way of Theo-poetics?
- E. A Conclusion: 'The King is Dead - Long Live the King!'
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
