Past and Present Political Theology : Expanding the Canon (Paperback)

Introduction Dennis Vanden Auweele and Miklos Vassanyi1 Kepler, the Supra-Confessional Lutheran Miklos Vassanyi2 The Subject’s Perspective in Leibniz’s Philosophy Daniel Schmal3 From a Pagan Theologia Civilis in Rome to a Fictitious Political Theology in Kant Martin Moors 4 On Evil and Political Theology: Reflections on Kant and After William Desmond5 The Political Theology of Witnessing: The Canaanite Woman and Kierkegaard’s Tax-Collector Orsolya Horvath6 The Politics of Religious Commitment: Pascal and Dostoevsky Dennis Vanden Auweele and Hanna Vandenbussche7 The East-West Divide in the European Union and Its Overcoming Balazs M. Mezei 8 Spiritual Communism: The Career of a Theory from Saint Augustine to MacIntyre. Gabor Kendeffy9 Dispositives of Political Theology: Analysing non-discursive Elements of the Josephinian Dispositive of Pastoral PowerMichael Hoelzl10 Theological Motives in Hannah Arendt’s ThoughtCsaba Olay11 A Political Theology ‘of Doubtful Solidity’: Leo Strauss on Rousseau via SpinozaGabor Boros12 Religious Moral Languages, Secularity, and Hermeneutical InjusticeGorazd Andrejc13 "State-persecution" in the works of Raffaele Pettazzoni. A religious historyValerio Severino14 Christ versus the Llama Sacrifice: Rodolfo Kusch’s Theological Criticism of the Colonization of Latin AmericaPeter Szakacs15 Religious Atheism: Assessing Political Religion through Critchley’s Faith of the FaithlessDennis Vanden Auweele