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Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics / edited by Alistair Welchman
(Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. ISSN:22111115 ; 8)

Publisher	(Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2015
Edition	1st ed. 2015.
Authors	Welchman, Alistair editor SpringerLink (Online service)

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Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XIII, 191 p : online resource
Notes	Introduction, A. Welchman -- An Aphoristic Memoir: On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Philosophy for Life, A-M. Bowery -- Rethinking Disenchantment and Poesis: Interpreting the Resistance to the Political in Critchley’s Call for Re-Enchantment, T. Chante -- How Much Does That Weigh? Lévinas and the Possibility of Human Rights, J. Stauffer -- To Die Laughing: On Irony and Humor in Limit Situations, C. Bradatan -- You are not your own: On the Nature of Faith, S. Critchley -- Simon Critchley’s Problem of Politics and Hannah Arendt’s Idealism for the USA, R. Champagne -- Contested States: Capital, Resistance and Power, P. Lewis -- Exposures and Projections: Simon Critchley’s Ethics of Appearances, D. Panagia -- Cosmology, Anthropology and Politics: Reflections on Rousseau and ‘Mystical Anarchism’, P. Quadrio -- Protest Politics and Para-Ontology, A. Welchman -- The Sewing Circles of Geneva: Mores, Morals and Moralizing in Political Life, A. O’Byrne The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers—Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in particular Simon Critchley—have begun to explore a more productive engagement of the religious and the political in which religion features as a possible or even necessary form of human emancipation. The papers in this collection, deriving from a workshop held on and with Simon Critchley at the University of Texas at San Antonio in February 2010, take up the ways in which religion’s encounter with politics transforms not only politics but also religion itself, molding it into various religions of politics, including not just heretical religious metaphysics, but also what Critchley describes as non-metaphysical religion, the faith of the faithless. Starting from Critchley’s own genealogy of Pauline faith, the articles in this collection explore and defend some of the religions of politics and their implications. Costica Bradatan teases out the implications of Critchley’s substitution of humor for tragedy as the vehicle for the minimal self-distancing required for any politics. Jill Stauffer compares Critchley’s non-metaphysical religiosity with Charles Taylor’s account of Christianity. Alistair Welchman unpacks the political theology of the border in terms of god’s timeless act of creation. Anne O’Byrne explores the subtle dialectic between mores and morality in Rousseau’s political ethics. Roland Champagne sees a kind non-metaphysical religion in Arendt’s category of the political pariah. Davide Panagia presents Critchley’s ethics of exposure as the basis for a non-metaphysical political bond. Philip Quadrio wonders about the political ramifications of Critchley’s own ‘mystical anarchism’ and Tina Chanter re-reads the primal site in the Western tradition at which the political and the religious intersect, the Antigone story, side-stepping philosophical interpretations of the story (dominated by Hegel’s reading) by means of a series of post-colonial re-imaginings of the play. The collection concludes with an interview with Simon Critchley taking up the themes of the workshop in the light of more recent political events: the Arab Spring and the rise and fall of the Occupy movement HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0
Subjects	LCSH:Religion—Philosophy LCSH:Religion FREE:Philosophy of Religion FREE:Religion
Classification	LCC:BL51 DC23:210
ID	8000012777
ISBN	9789401794480