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What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by Rene Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli and political modernity, up to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny interconnections of sacrality and politics in Western political thought and follow an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this volume also seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called ''age of globalization''.>
About the author
Elisabetta Brighi is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. She is the author of Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations (2013) and Pragmatism in International Relations (2009), co-edited with Harry Bauer.Antonio Cerella is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. He works at the intersection of political theory, continental philosophy, and religious study. He is the author of Genealogies of Political Modernity (2020) and the editor of Heidegger and the Global Age (2017) and The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion (2015).
