Description: Political Theology : Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, Paperback by Kahn, Paul W., ISBN 0231153414, ISBN-13 9780231153416, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign.
Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitts 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitts four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitts work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn demonstrates how the line between exception and judicial decision is not as sharp as Schmitt led us to believe. He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination. Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.
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Book Title: Political Theology : Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereig
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Political Theology : Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: History & Theory, Political, Christian Theology / Liberation
Item Height: 0 in
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Political Science
Author: Paul Kahn
Item Length: 0.8 in
Series: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
