List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Walking Tree Part I: On Sovereignty: 1. Rex sacrorum: On the Origins and Evolution of Sovereign Power 2. Space and Sovereignty: A Reverse Perspective Part II: Political Theologies 3. Encounters at the End of a World: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and the Tyranny of Values 4. Until the End of the World: René Girard, Carl Schmitt, and the Origins of Violence 5. Religion and Political Form: Schmitt contra Habermas Part III: History and Archaeology: 6. The Myth of Origin: Archaeology and History in the Work of Giorgio Agamben and René Girard 7. Imago mortis, imago Dei: An Archaeology of Political Sacrifice Bibliography Index
Drawing on the work of Agamben, Foucault, Habermas, and Heidegger, amongst others, this book provides a critical assessment of the political formation of modernity in the advent of globalization.
Antonio Cerella is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and International Studies at Kingston University London, UK.
Genealogies of Political Modernity is an excellent book, examining
an important aspect of political modernity, its immanentisation and
secularisation of theological ways of thinking. The book offers an
important and necessary genealogy of political modernity,
particularly in the light of our current political crises.
*Charlie Gere, Professor of Media Theory and History, Lancaster
University United Kingdom*
Despite a key supposition of modernity that it has broken with
tradition and started history from a clean slate, its political,
social, economic, and other realities are firmly anchored in the
past it despises. Antonio Cerella has done a marvellous job of
exposing modernity's largely disavowed spatiotemporal roots along
with a plethora of contingencies that surprise the thrust of their
predetermined movement. The result is a book that is a 'must-read'
for anyone interested in the history of the present.
*Michael Marder, Research Professor of Philosophy, University of
the Basque Country, Spain*
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