Montserrat Herrero

Theopolitical Figures (eBook, ePUB)

Scripture, Prophecy, Oath, Charisma, Hospitality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book addresses the question of the extent to which theological discourse has been and is relevant to the origins of the meanings, symbols, and realities of some instituted political practices. This relevance has historically manifested itself in the hybridisation of theological and political concepts, images, gestures, and rituals. Indeed, some divine traces could be seen as embedded in institutionalised political practices. Theopolitical figures, then, are other names for God - in the sense of negative theology - that we find in instituted practices within the political realm. The book considers five theopolitical figures: scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma, and hospitality. In the symbolic meaning of these figures, we discern some central questions for contemporary societies, among them: the unconditional character of justice, the unfeasibility of historical expectation, the stability of the given word, the idea of power as a gift, and openness to the coming other as an ethical-political imperative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399522564
• Artikelnr.: 72413606

Autorenporträt

Montserrat Herrero is Professor of Political Philosophy and Principal Investigator of the Research Group Religion and Civil Society at the Institute Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra (Spain). She is the director of the Journal Anuario Filosófico. She is widely published in topics related to the political philosophy, in particular, on Hegel, Hobbes, Locke and Spinoza. She is the author of Le Sacré et la Parole. Le Serment au Moyen Age, with M. Aurell and J. Aurell (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018); Political Theology in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Discourses, Rites and Representations with Aurell, J., Miceli, A. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017) and The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt. A Mystic of Order (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).