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	• Theology and the Political: The New Debate sic v ([sic] Series) Duke University Press, 2005 - 476 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Fantastic Collection

This is a solid contribution to the burgeoning intersection of the religious and the secular (post-Marxist) especially as it relates to the reemergence of political theology (after communism) and the reexamination of St. Paul in continental theory (Agamben, Badiou, Taubes, Zizek, Graham Ward et al). This volume does not ring as a manifesto--there is not enough agreement among the essays to forge such a possibility. However, insofar as atheists (Zizek/Surin/Goodchild/Critchley/Eagleton/de Vries?) join in the chorus of voices with orthodox theologians (Milbank/Blond/Cunningham/Davis/Riches/Pickstock/Schwartz/Ward) in regards to the need to think beyond capitalism, then something genuinely new has taken place. It seems like this is the new trend in the humanities that finally gets beyond the secular/religious split in a constructive way. This is a worthy text to discover for this reason alone. I highly recommend it.

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The essays in Theology and the Political?written by some of the world?s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics?analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political in light of the thought of figures ranging from Plato to Marx, Levinas to Derrida, and Augustine to Lacan. Together, the contributors challenge the belief that meaningful action is simply the successful assertion of will, that politics is ultimately reducible to ?might makes right.? From a variety of perspectives, they suggest that grounding human action and politics in materialist critique offers revolutionary possibilities that transcend the nihilism inherent in both contemporary liberal democratic theory and neoconservative ideology.

Contributors. Anthony Baker, Daniel M. Bell Jr., Phillip Blond, Simon Critchley, Conor Cunningham, Creston Davis, William Desmond, Hent de Vries, Terry Eagleton, Rocco Gangle, Philip Goodchild, Karl Hefty, Eleanor Kaufman, Tom McCarthy, John Milbank, Antonio Negri, Catherine Pickstock, Patrick Aaron Riches, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Regina Mara Schwartz, Kenneth Surin, Graham Ward, Rowan Williams, Slavoj Zizek

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