The Political Theology of Schelling / / Saitya Brata Das.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Das, Saitya Brata,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Ontology : NPO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

A rigorous examination of Schelling's theologico-political works, set against his contemporary, HegelSaitya Brata Das rigorously examines the theologico-political works of F. W. J. von Schelling and sets his thought against Hegel's more dominant approach. He argues that Schelling inaugurates a new thinking outside of Occidental metaphysics, by a paradoxical manner of exit, which prepares for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida.This new reflection, outside of the Universal world-historical politics of modernity, is achieved by re-thinking religion as eschatology. Intervening in contemporary debates on post-secularism and the return to religion, Das shows that religion, in an essential sense, always opens up infinitude from the heart of finitude, to an irreducible outside of the profane order of worldly hegemonies. Religion here assumes a negative political theology of exception without sovereign power.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: The Exit and the Event -- Introduction -- 1 Actuality Without Potentiality -- 2 The Rhythm of History -- 3 The Beatific Life -- 4 The Irreducible Remainder -- 5 The Non-Sovereign Exception -- 6 The Tragic Dissonance -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index