The Politics to Come Power, Modernity and the Messianic

by Bradley, Arthur; Fletcher, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781847063151
• ISBN10: 1847063152
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-18
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain.

Author Biography

Arthur Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy; Derrida's of Grammatology: A Philosophical Guide and (with Andrew Tate) The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic after 9/11. Paul Fletcher (1965-2008) was Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Disciplining the Divine: Toward an (Im)political Theology.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Questioning Political Religion

Messianic Politics: A Secular Response

Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'?: A Response to Richard Beardswiorth

'Messianic Power' for a Secular Generation

Are We Really Secular?: The Limits of la-vie-la-mort

Questioning Political Modernity

Economies of Promise: Fiscal and Christian, Philip Goodchild

Messianic Deposition: Representation and the Flight of the Gods

Liberal Peace and Endemic (Messianic) Insecurity

Pre-Secular Philosophy: Deconstruction, Messianism, Secularism

Historical and theoretical Analyses

Hegel: The Messianic and the Dialectic of Secularism

The Politics of Grace: Hobbes and Redemption from Nature

Minimal Messianity in Benjamin

The Kat-echon and Schmitt

Weak Messianic Power and the Holocaust

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