Critical Theory and Political Theology

The Aftermath of the Enlightenment
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-17171-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 341 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

This book deals with the aftermath of the enlightenment and its legacy in the political, social, and racial context. It discusses the incomplete project of modernity in terms of social contract theory, racial justice issues, and political theology in the postcolonial context. Hermeneutical realism and cultural linguistic inquiry become substantial features in elaborating postcolonial political theology and its ethical stance against the colonization of lifeworld and its pathologies. A study of critical theory and political theology is of a reconstructive character in seeking to relocate critical theory and political ethics in the context of alternative modernities at the level of postcolonial theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chung, Paul S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Sonstige Theologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Race, Social Contract Theory, and Social Darwinism.- 3. Political Theology, Negative Dialectics, and Messianic History.- 4. Enlightenment, Genealogy, and Political Discourse Ethics.- 5. Nietzsche, Critical Theory, and Cultural Linguistic Theology.- 6. Orientalism, the Problematic of Marx, Subaltern Studies.- 7. Mimicry, Hegel Interpretation, and Mimetic Theory of Language.- 8. Ethnic Nationalism, Social Darwinism, and Alternative Modernities.- 9. Ernst Troeltsch: Political Ethics and Comparative Religions.- 10. Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul S. Chung teaches at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and at the Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, CA.