Political Theology - Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

Informationen zum Autor Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and director of the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He is the author of numerous books! including Putting Liberalism in Its Place; Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil and Sacred Violence: Torture! Terror! and Sovereignty. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword! by Dick HowardAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Political Theology Again1. Definition of Sovereignty2. The Problem of Sovereignty as the Problem of the Legal Form and of the Decision3. Political Theology4. On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the StateConclusion: Political Theology and the End of DiscourseNotesIndex

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• Authors: Paul Kahn, Paul (Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and Kahn, Paul W. Kahn, Kahn Paul
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9780231153416
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15341-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Columbia University Press; Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History; Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History; Columbia Studies in Political Thought/Political History (COUP); Columbia Studies in Political Thought/Political History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Liberation, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, philosophy; political science