| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Political theory and contemporary philosophy |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Democracy, Authenticity, Critique; 1.1 Religion and politics: Variations on a theme; 1.2 Power, authenticity, and democracy; 1.3 Secularization and the sacred: Possible buildings; Chapter 2: Sacred Boundaries and Ethical Closure; 2.1 Constitutive boundaries and sacralization; 2.2 Meaningful autonomy over time; Chapter 3: Axial Echoes in Global Space; 3.1 Public worship beyond the state?; 3.2 The state beyond public worship?; Chapter 4: Back to Burgenland?; 4.1 Toward a topology of the exceptional |
| Summary |
"Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and bad feelings such as anxiety. It offers a critique of progressive theory's tendency to advance extreme models of revolt that have little real-life applicability. The chapters move fluidly between several theoretical registers, the most obvious of these being continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, Butlerian ethics, affect theory, and queer theory. One of the central aims of Distillations is to explore the largely uncharted territory between psychoanalysis and affect theory, which are frequently pitted against each other as hopelessly incompatible, but which Ruti shows can be brought into a productive dialogue."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Notes |
Author's Preface 1. Democracy and Authenticity 2. Secularisation and the Sacred 3. Sacred Boundaries4. Fatal PoliticsBibliographyIndex |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-177) and index |
| Subject |
Religion and politics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
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Religion and politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
135005884X |
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9781350058828 |
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1350058823 |
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9781350058842 |
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9781350058859 |
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1350058858 |
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1350058831 |
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9781350058835 |
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