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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The essays in Theology and the Political-written by some of the world’s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics-analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political in light of the thought of figures ranging from Plato to Marx, Levinas to Derrida, and Augustine to Lacan. Together, the contributors challenge the belief that meaningful action is simply the successful assertion of will, that politics is ultimately reducible to “might makes right.” From a variety of perspectives, they suggest that grounding human action and politics in materialist critique offers revolutionary possibilities that transcend the nihilism inherent in both contemporary liberal democratic theory and neoconservative ideology.Contributors. Anthony Baker, Daniel M. Bell Jr., Phillip Blond, Simon Critchley, Conor Cunningham, Creston Davis, William Desmond, Hent de Vries, Terry Eagleton, Rocco Gangle, Philip Goodchild, Karl Hefty, Eleanor Kaufman, Tom McCarthy, John Milbank, Antonio Negri, Catherine Pickstock, Patrick Aaron Riches, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Regina Mara Schwartz, Kenneth Surin, Graham Ward, Rowan Williams, Slavoj Žižek Zusammenfassung A reassertion o fthe importance of theology to political action that goes beyond both liberal democratic theory and neoconservatism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Rowan Williams 1 Part I. Revolution and Theological Difference Tragedy and Revolution / Terry Eagleton 7 Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution / Creston Davis and Patrick Aaron Riches 22 The “Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy” / Slavoj Zizek 52 Nothing is Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One / Conor Cunningham 72 Revelation and Revolution / Regina Mara Schwartz 102 Part 2. Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology / Philip Goodchild 127 Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics / William Desmond 153 Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money / Simon Chritchley and Tom McCarthy 183 Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment / Daniel M. Bell Jr. 200 Part 3. Infinite Desire and the Political Subject The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence / Antonio Negri 231 Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject / Kenneth Surin 240 Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual / Anthony Baker and Rocco Gangle 267 The Univocalist Mode of Production / Catherine Pickstock 281 Part 4. Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology The Unbearable Withness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anit-ontotheology / Mary-Jane Rubenstein 340 “To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough”: Violence and the Incorporeal / Elanor Kaufman 350 The Two Sources of the “Theological Machine:: Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror / Hent de Vries 366 Part 5. Theological Materialism Materialism and Transcendence / John Milbank 393 Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politi...
