Political Theology : : Demystifying the Universal / / Marinos Diamantides, Anton Schütz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Diamantides, Marinos,; Schütz, Anton,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters in Law & Philosophy : ELP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1. Premises and Arguments --; Part 1: Religions R Us --; 2. From Sovereignty to Negeschatology --; 3. Social Systems on the Cross --; 4. The Religion of Progress --; 5. Political Theology beyond Schmitt --; Part 2: Historicised Political Theology --; 6. From Jerusalem to Rome via Constantinople --; 7. The Transition from Secularism to Post-secularism --; 8. Deeds without Words --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748697786; 9783110781403
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748697786?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marinos Diamantides, Anton Schütz.

Can secularisation in the legal and political domains settle modernity’s scores with religion?Anton Schütz and Marinos Diamantides provide a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. Questions the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt’s political theologyBuilds upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben’s close-reading of Christian government as managementIdentifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudenceConcludes that what the West’s secular universality is passing off as 'politics' or 'law' is really an attempt to manage its own dwindling primacy