Force of God : : Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy / / Carl Raschke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Raschke, Carl,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

For theorists in search of a political theology that is more responsive to the challenges now facing Western democracies, this book tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value. The political theology of the future, Carl Raschke argues, must draw on a powerful, hidden impetus—the "force of God"—to frame a new value economy. It must also embrace a radical, "faith-based" revolutionary style of theory that reconceives the power of the "theological" in political thought and action.Raschke ties democracy's retreat to the West's failure to confront its decadence and mobilize its vast spiritual resources. Worsening debt, rising unemployment, and gross income inequality have led to a crisis in political representation and values that twentieth-century theorists never anticipated. Drawing on the thought of Hegel and Nietzsche as well as recent work by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Joseph Goux, Giorgio Agamben, and Alain Badiou, among others, Raschke recasts political theology for a new generation. He proposes a bold, uncompromising critical theory that acknowledges the enduring significance of Marx without his materialism and builds a vital, more spiritually grounded relationship between politics and the religious imaginary.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Historical and Theoretical Considerations -- 1. Liberal Democracy and the Crisis of Representation -- 2. Force of Thought -- 3. Force of Art -- 4. Force of the Political -- Part 2. The Genealogy of Crisis -- 5. Force and Economy -- 6. Force of Exception -- Part 3. Toward a Political Theology in the Twilight of the Political -- 7. Force of God -- 8. The End of the Political -- 9. God, the State, and Revolution -- Notes -- Index