Description: Further DetailsTitle: Political TheologyCondition: NewEAN: 9780231153409ISBN: 9780231153409Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/23/2011Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Paul KahnLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Four New Chapters on the Concept of SovereigntyISBN-10: 0231153406Description: In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn demonstrates how the line between exception and judicial decision is not as sharp as Schmitt led us to believe. He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination.Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political HistoryTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Political Theology
Title: Political Theology
EAN: 9780231153409
ISBN: 9780231153409
Release Date: 02/23/2011
Release Year: 2011
Subtitle: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
ISBN-10: 0231153406
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Political Theology : Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Christian Theology / Apologetics, History & Theory, Political, Christian Theology / Liberation
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Paul Kahn
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Political Science
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
