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" Modernity and the political fix / "
Andrew Gibson.
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BL
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844725
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Gibson, Andrew,1949-
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Modernity and the political fix /\ Andrew Gibson.
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London, UK ;New York, NY, USA :: Bloomsbury Academic,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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Political theologies
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x, 235 pages ;; 24 cm.
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1350096970
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: 9781350096974
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9781350096967
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9781350096981
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-225) and index.
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Acknowledgements. Introduction: modernity and the political fix -- Ironical modernity -- Byron as paradigm -- Benjamin and "satanic modernity" -- Functions of modern literature. 1 The implosion of modernity : The way we live now -- Twelve features of the neoliberal mythos -- Leibniz triumphans -- Political theology and counterdemocracy. 2 Absolute historicity : Heidegger and radical finitude -- Foucault and his methods -- Joyce's historical materialism. 3 Event : Back to Badiou -- Pro and contra the event -- Kant and speculative reason -- Woolf's "state of being". 4 Remainder : Carpaccio and the atomized emporium -- "Mondes atones" from Hobbes to Schopenhauer -- Wagner without redemption. 5 The people untransformed : The unbridged gap -- Agon of Weimar -- Joseph Roth and "the indolence of the heart" -- Canetti and general solipsism -- Rancière, Orwell and knowing the people. 6 Transmission : A melancholic-ecstatic conception of history -- Occulation and the survival of truth -- Lacanian caveats -- Transmission against the grain. Conclusion: a political theology -- An inductive thought -- Political theology and its critics -- Schmitt, Blumenberg, Lefort -- Metaphorics from the Old Testament to Kierkegaard -- In the end, the poets. Notes -- Index.
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Modernity and modern politics were long haunted by irony and paradox. Ours, however, is the age in which modernity implodes. Modernity has degenerated into self-parody. Its poles are finally collapsing into each other. In this book, the author asks which aspects of modern politics we might want to salvage and within what structure we might continue thinking about them. These questions call for the isolation of a particular set of concepts which, suitably related, offer a political theology involving a new mode of political temporality. The thinking in question is best represented in early modern and, chiefly, modern philosophy, art an, above all, literature. Ranging widely through them, the author seeks to compile a treasury for a politics to come.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Literature, Modern-- Political aspects.
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Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Political science-- Philosophy.
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Religion and politics.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Literature, Modern-- Political aspects.
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Literature, Modern.
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Modernität
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Political science-- Philosophy.
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Politische Philosophie
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Religion and politics.
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| Dewey Classification
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320.01
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JA71.G53 2019
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