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Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Raschke, Carl

Hardcover

Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C

PhilosophyReligion General General Political Science

ISBN10: 0231173849
ISBN13: 9780231173841
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Aug 11 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

For theorists in search of a political theology that is more responsive to the challenges now facing Western democracies, this book tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value. The political theology of the future, Carl Raschke argues, must draw on a powerful, hidden impetus--the force of God--to frame a new value economy. It must also embrace a radical, faith-based revolutionary style of theory that reconceives the power of the theological in political thought and action.

Raschke ties democracy's retreat to the West's failure to confront its decadence and mobilize its vast spiritual resources. Worsening debt, rising unemployment, and gross income inequality have led to a crisis in political representation and values that twentieth-century theorists never anticipated. Drawing on the thought of Hegel and Nietzsche as well as recent work by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Joseph Goux, Giorgio Agamben, and Alain Badiou, among others, Raschke recasts political theology for a new generation. He proposes a bold, uncompromising critical theory that acknowledges the enduring significance of Marx without his materialism and builds a vital, more spiritually grounded relationship between politics and the religious imaginary.

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