Political Theology And Its Discontents

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvK. Daniel Cho,Boštjan Nedoh,USA) Cho, Professor or Dr. K. Daniel (Otterbein University,Ljubljana) Nedoh, Dr Bostjan (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts,Bostjan Nedoh,Botjan Nedoh,Bo¿tjan Nedoh,Arthur Bradley

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The essays in this collection revitalise political theology through the lens of psychoanalysis, unlocking its emancipatory potential and providing new ways to think about the political. They are united by a conviction that there is something in political theology worth fighting for. Banishing the misconception of political theology as reactionary or paradoxical, they push the discipline forward by drawing on the insights of psychoanalysis and a re-engagement with theology.While Sigmund Freud was at times dismissive of religion, he also used his inquiry into it to completely re-theorize the political in a way that this book’s team of leading scholars bring to the fore. Each chapter uses psychoanalysis as a point of departure for serious engagement with political theology, eliciting the radical potential at the nexus of the political and the theological. This powerfully productive approach unearths new strands of political theology and refreshing perspectives on established concepts like universality, ideology, law, authority, the neighbor. Covering ideas from libidinal politics to the political economy of laziness, Political Theology and its Discontents demonstrates that a deep and sincere engagement with theology can give us a new view of the political.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-19
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt493 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePolitical Theologies
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350500686

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction, K. Daniel Cho and Boštjan NedohPart One: Three Essays on the Theory of the Political1. Freud’s critique of the political, K. Daniel Cho2. The people of the book: A psychoanalytic account, Abigail Kulisz3. Political theology of the as-if: Kelsen, Freud, fiction, Arthur BradleyPart Two: Imaginary Fathers, Real Woman4. Schreber’s theological materialism, Tadej Troha5. The imaginary phallus: The libidinal politics of the curse of Ham, Paul Eisenstein6. Touching the Imam’s body: The theological, the political, the psychoanalytical, Arsalan Reihanzadeh7. “Religion of the father”? Judaism as a politico-theological code of parenticide, Agata Bielik-RobsonPart Three: Four Chapters on the Concept of Left Political Theology8. The law of an unauthorized God, Todd McGowan9. Gaps of rest: Toward a political economy of laziness, Simon Hajdini10. Forcing the messiah: Paul, Rosenzweig, and Badiou, Kenneth Reinhard11. Wiederholung: Trauma and happiness in the Gospel according to Benjamin, Boštjan NedohNotesAbout the Authors

With Political Theology and Its Discontents, K. Daniel Cho and Boštjan Nedoh present a series of powerful challenges to Carl Schmitt’s still-influential notion of political theology. Schmitt sometimes is simply dismissed for his Nazism. At other times, leftist critical engagements with him tend merely to appropriate his conceptions of sovereignty and the friend-enemy distinction as useful for radical leftism too. What distinguishes Political Theology and Its Discontents is that it convincingly demonstrates how bringing Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to bear on Schmittian political theology utterly transforms the latter. The psychoanalytic reinterpretations of Schmitt’s ideas and texts offered by the essays in this volume reveal that neither politics nor theology can be limited to what Schmitt took them to be. Cho and Nedoh’s Political Theology and Its Discontents is a timely, invaluable, and highly original reconsideration of the contemporary interrelationships between politics and religion in Schmitt’s wake. Nobody concerned with our current geo-political circumstances can afford to ignore this path-breaking collection.