Theology and the Political: The New Debate, sic v: 5 ([sic] Series) - Softcover

Davis, Creston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822334720 ISBN 13: 9780822334729

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Theology

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Review:

“Underlying all the very varied essays in this volume is a set of issues about how we understand human action. And what the essays have in common, I believe, is a conviction that the fundamental requirement of a politics worth the name is that we have an account of human action that decisively marks its distance from assumptions about action as the successful assertion of will. If there is no hinterland to human acting except the contest of private and momentary desire, meaningful action is successful action, an event in which a particular will has imprinted its agenda on the ‘external’ world. Or, in plainer terms, meaning is power . . . and any discourse of justice is illusory.” Author: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, from the introduction

From the Author:

Creston Davis is a doctoral candidate in philosophical theology at the University of Virginia.

John Milbank is a professor of religion, politics, and ethics at the University of Nottingham. His books include Being Reconciled: Ontology and Pardon and Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason.

Slavoj Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, editor of Cogito and the Unconscious: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, and coeditor of Perversion and the Social Relation and Gaze and Voice as Love Objects, all also published by Duke University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0822334720
• ISBN 13: 9780822334729
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492
• Editor: Davis