By Paul Kahn
ISBN-10: 0231153406
ISBN-13: 9780231153409
During this strikingly unique paintings, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the which means of political theology. In a textual content cutting edge in either shape and substance, he describes an American political theology as a mundane inquiry into final meanings maintaining our religion within the renowned sovereign. Kahn works out his view via an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 vintage, Political Theology: 4 Chapters at the thought of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's 4 chapters, delivering a brand new model of every that's conscious of the yank political imaginary. the result's a latest political theology. As in Schmitt's paintings, sovereignty continues to be crucial, but Kahn indicates how well known sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice within the glossy nation. Turning to legislations, Kahn demonstrates how the road among exception and judicial determination isn't as sharp as Schmitt led us to think. He reminds readers that American political lifestyles starts with the progressive willingness to sacrifice and that either sacrifice and legislation proceed to flooring the yank political mind's eye. Kahn bargains a political theology that has at its middle the perform of freedom learned in political judgements, criminal judgments, and eventually in philosophical inquiry itself.
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We should be very dear. The daim here is not that such a break should not have occurred and that politics must be put back on a religious foundation. That would be a normative intervention My enterprise in politics. is descriptive: to explore the political imagination we have, whether or not we should have it. Obviously, something happened at the origins of the modern state. Some sort of change occurred when political leadership freed itself of the daims of the church. Whatever Schmitt meant by political theology, it cannot mean today that secular government is secretly doing the work of the church, or that it should.
49Are we within law or are we within the exception? That we Can ask rhe quesrion at all suggests rhat Americans have not accepted for rhemselves rhe postwar vision ofWesrern politics as a matter oflaw alone. Our political culrure is one in which borh law and sacrifice figure, and in which the believer finds the truth of the self in and through participarion in rhe popular sovereign. It is a faith that can suPPOrt sacrificial violence as easily as it can support adjudication under law. " America, we mighr say, finds irself equally when ir looks to the court and the bomb.
That of friends and enemies insisrs rhat In polirics there is no such universal perspective. Political theology cannot ignore claims of justice-there must still be a content to one's laws-but it explores the fundamental categories of the imaginative construction of self and other that are at stake in our political life. There is no theoretical resolution . of this conflict of perspectives because both appeal to first principles. We can argue that all subjects should be treated rhe same under law because all are entided respect and CO equal all have the same basic needs.
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