Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics by Carl Ras

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Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term 'neoliberalism' really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood.

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Neoliberalism has become the operative buzzword among pundits and academics to characterise an increasingly dysfunctional global political economy. It is often wrongly identified exclusively with free market fundamentalism and illiberal types of cultural conservatism. Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood. He lays out how the present new world disorder, signalled by the election of Trump and Brexit, derives less from the ascendancy of reactionary forcesand morefrom the implosion of the post-Cold War effort to establish a progressive international moral and political order for the cynical benefit of a new cosmopolitan knowledge class, mimicking the so-called civilising mission of 19th-century European colonialists.

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Explains neoliberalism as a deep political theologyNeoliberalism in recent years has become the operative buzzword among pundits and academics to characterise an increasingly dysfunctional global political economy. It is often - wrongly - identified exclusively with free market fundamentalism and illiberal types of cultural conservatism. Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood. He lays out how the present new world disorder, signalled by the American election of 2016 and the Brexit vote, does not derive so much from the ascendancy of reactionary forces as from the implosion of the post-Cold War effort to establish a progressive international moral and political order for the cynical benefit of a new cosmopolitan knowledge class, mimicking the so-called civilising mission of nineteenth-century European colonialists.Carl Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver and Consulting Editor for The New Polis.

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Explains neoliberalism as a deep political theologyNeoliberalism in recent years has become the operative buzzword among pundits and academics to characterise an increasingly dysfunctional global political economy. It is often - wrongly - identified exclusively with free market fundamentalism and illiberal types of cultural conservatism.Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood. He lays out how the present new world disorder, signalled by the American election of 2016 and the Brexit vote, does not derive so much from the ascendancy of reactionary forces as from the implosion of the post-Cold War effort to establish a progressive international moral and political order for the cynical benefit of a new cosmopolitan knowledge class, mimicking the so-called civilising mission of nineteenth-century European colonialists.Carl Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver and Consulting Editor for The New Polis.

Author Biography

Carl Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Towards a Semiotics of the Event (University of Virginia Press, 2012), GloboChrist (Baker Academic, 2008), The Next Reformation (Baker Academic, 2004), The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University (Routledge, 2002), Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body (SUNY, 1995) and The Engendering God (Westminster, 1995) and Painted Black (HarperCollins, 1991).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Toward a Genealogy of Neoliberalism; 2. Progressive Neoliberalism and Its Discontents; 3. Mediatic Hegemony - the Kingdom, the Power, the Glory, and the Tawdry; 4. Killing Us Softly - On Neoliberal 'Truth' Protocols; 5. The Epistemic Crisis; 6. Globalism, Multiculturalism, and the 'Politics of Recognition'; 7. The Deep Political Theology of Neoliberalism; 8. Endings.

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In this penetrating analysis of the political forces which underlie the clash of contemporary values, Raschke exposes the extent to which emancipatory discourse has been co-opted to serve the hegemony of global elites. At once provocative and contemporary, this is political theology at its most critical.-- "Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham"

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Shatters the common academic myth that neoliberalism is simply free market fundamentalism plus political conservatism

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In this penetrating analysis of the political forces which underlie the clash of contemporary values, Raschke exposes the extent to which emancipatory discourse has been co-opted to serve the hegemony of global elites. At once provocative and contemporary, this is political theology at its most critical.

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Shatters the common academic myth that neoliberalism is simply free market fundamentalism plus political conservatism

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Shatters the common academic myth that neoliberalism is simply free market fundamentalism plus political conservatism Explains how neoliberalism is a regime of culture and values - far more than political economy Turns much of today's progressive politics upside down by showing that many of the would-be liberators are really the exploiters: as Marx and Engels declared, the 'ruling ideas' of our era must be unmasked as 'the ideas of the ruling class' Offers a vision of what might lie beyond neoliberalism Connects the analysis of neoliberalism to the cultural diagnosis of Friedrich Nietzsche, who declared 'God is dead' Neoliberalism in recent years has become the operative buzzword among pundits and academics to characterise an increasingly dysfunctional global political economy. It is often - wrongly - identified exclusively with free market fundamentalism and illiberal types of cultural conservatism. Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood. Raschke lays out how the present new world disorder, signalled by the election of Trump and Brexit, derives less from the ascendancy of reactionary forces and more from the implosion of the post-Cold War effort to establish a progressive international moral and political order for the cynical benefit of a new cosmopolitan knowledge class, mimicking the so-called civilising mission of 19th-century European colonialists.

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Explains how neoliberalism is a regime of culture and values - far more than political economy Turns much of today's progressive politics upside down by showing that many of the would-be liberators are really the exploiters: as Marx and Engels declared, the 'ruling ideas' of our era must be unmasked as 'the ideas of the ruling class' Offers a vision of what might lie beyond neoliberalism Connects the analysis of neoliberalism to the cultural diagnosis of Friedrich Nietzsche, who declared 'God is dead'

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Shatters the common academic myth that neoliberalism is simply free market fundamentalism plus political conservatism Explains how neoliberalism is a regime of culture and values - far more than political economy Turns much of today's progressive politics upside down by showing that many of the would-be liberators are really the exploiters: as Marx and Engels declared, the 'ruling ideas' of our era must be unmasked as 'the ideas of the ruling class' Offers a vision of what might lie beyond neoliberalism Connects the analysis of neoliberalism to the cultural diagnosis of Friedrich Nietzsche, who declared 'God is dead'

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Philosophy; political philosophy; religious studies.

Details ISBN1474454550 Author Carl Raschke Pages 192 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 1474454550 ISBN-13 9781474454551 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2019-09-30 Short Title Neoliberalism and Political Theology Language English Subtitle From Kant to Identity Politics DEWEY 320.513 UK Release Date 2019-09-30 Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2019-09-30 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-12-04 Alternative 9781474454568 We've got this

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