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The essays in this collection revitalise political theology through the lens of psychoanalysis, unlocking its emancipatory potential and providing new ways to think about the political.
They are united by a conviction that there is something in political theology worth fighting for. Banishing the misconception of political theology as reactionary or paradoxical, they push the discipline forward by drawing on the insights of psychoanalysis and a re-engagement with theology.
While Sigmund Freud was at times dismissive of religion, he also used his inquiry into it to completely re-theorize the political in a way that this book's team of leading scholars bring to the fore. Each chapter uses psychoanalysis as a point of departure for serious engagement with political theology, eliciting the radical potential at the nexus of the political and the theological. This powerfully productive approach unearths new strands of political theology and refreshing perspectives on established concepts like universality, ideology, law, authority, the neighbor. Covering ideas from libidinal politics to the political economy of laziness, Political Theology and its Discontents demonstrates that a deep and sincere engagement with theology can give us a new view of the political.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction, K. Daniel Cho and Boštjan Nedoh
Part One: Three Essays on the Theory of the Political
1. Freud's critique of the political, K. Daniel Cho
2. The people of the book: A psychoanalytic account, Abigail Kulisz
3. Political theology of the as-if: Kelsen, Freud, fiction, Arthur Bradley
Part Two: Imaginary Fathers, Real Woman
4. Schreber's theological materialism, Tadej Troha
5. The imaginary phallus: The libidinal politics of the curse of Ham, Paul Eisenstein
6. Touching the Imam's body: The theological, the political, the psychoanalytical, Arsalan Reihanzadeh
7. "Religion of the father"? Judaism as a politico-theological code of parenticide, Agata Bielik-Robson
Part Three: Four Chapters on the Concept of Left Political Theology
8. The law of an unauthorized God, Todd McGowan
9. Gaps of rest: Toward a political economy of laziness, Simon Hajdini
10. Forcing the messiah: Paul, Rosenzweig, and Badiou, Kenneth Reinhard
11. Wiederholung: Trauma and happiness in the Gospel according to Benjamin, Boštjan Nedoh
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