Radical Democracy and Political Theology / / Jeffrey Robbins.
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Radical Democracy
- 1. Democracy, More Or Less
- Interlude. Managing Democracy Abroad
- 2. Democracy, Radically Conceived
- Part Two. Political Theology
- 3. Political Theology and the Postsecular
- Interlude. The Iranian Revolution Redux
- 4. Political Theology, Beyond Despair
- 5. Political Theologies, or Finding an Alternative to Schmitt
- 6. The Theopolitics of Democracy
- Conclusion. From the One to the Many
- Notes
- Index