Radical Democracy and Political Theology

Zusammenfassung Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe!" unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins! Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of modern democratic power! which does not rest with a centralized sovereign authority but operates as a diffuse social force. By linking radical democratic theory to a contemporary fascination with political theology! Robbins envisions the modern experience of democracy as a social! cultural! and political force transforming the nature of sovereign power and political authority.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Robbins, Jeffrey W. Robbins, Robbins Jeffrey
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2011
• EAN: 9780231156370
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15637-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture; Insurrections: Critical Studie; Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Theology, Theology, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Religion and Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE; History & Theory