Order, Crisis, and Redemption: Political Theology after Schmitt by Peter Langfor

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A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.

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Recent events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, the rise of right-wing populism, the growing economic inequality and political instability, and the climate emergency, are indicative of the decomposition of the global liberal democratic order. Order, Crisis, and Redemption is a critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, an attempt to think, with and beyond Schmitt, about the parameters of this crisis. Through a sustained critical engagement, ranging over Schmittian texts, including the lesser known, from the 1920s to the 1970s, the book elaborates three main themes that preoccupied Schmitt: order, crisis, and redemption. In times of crisis, as with the one we are currently experiencing, we are faced with the dilemma of either shoring up the current political and legal order—through ever more authoritarian measures—or radically transforming it. Redemption, in the full theological sense of the word, thus implies the possibility of a new understanding of ethics and politics, aimed at creating a more just world.

Author Biography

Peter Langford is Senior Lecturer in Law at Edge Hill University in England. His many books include Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political. Saul Newman is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of many books, including Political Theology: A Critical Introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. From States of Emergency to Forms of the Political2. Who Is the Subject of Political Theology? 3. Person, Identity, Transformation 4. Political Theology and the Anthropocene 5. Technology as Political Theology 6. Political Theology and Democratic Constitutionalism 7. Political Theology and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Constitutionalism 8. Katechon and the Problem of Order Coda Notes References Index

Review

"Order, Crisis, and Redemption uses an original and scholarly reevaluation of Carl Schmitt's political theology as a springboard for addressing key political issues of the day, such as climate change and the Anthropocene, Neoliberalism, populism, and the decline of the nation-state as a viable political structure for taking humanity into the foreseeable future. It also engages, in a masterful and enlightening fashion, with commentaries on Schmitt (Agamben, Böckenforde). Particularly insightful is the way the work invokes Schmitt's catholic background and catholic theology as a way of clarifying the rationale for Schmitt's approach to a range of issues, but especially the notions of sovereignty and democracy."—John Lechte, author of The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life

Details ISBN1438493436 Author Saul Newman Pages 241 Publisher State University of New York Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781438493435 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-01-02 Imprint State University of New York Press Subtitle Political Theology after Schmitt Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States Alternative 9781438493442 DEWEY 261.7 Illustrations Total Illustrations: 0 Audience General US Release Date 2024-01-02 We've got this

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