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Survival - A Theological-Political Genealogy (Hardcover)
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Survival - A Theological-Political Genealogy (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than
the question of survival. In this theoretically and
methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a
critical reevaluation of survival as a contemporary regime of
representation. In Survival, Stern asks what texts, what
institutions, and what traditions have made survival a recognizable
element of our current political vocabulary. The book begins by
suggesting that the interpretive key lies in the discursive
prominence of "Jewish survival." Yet the Jewish example, he argues,
is less a marker of Jewish history than an index of Christianity's
impact on the modern, secular, political imagination. With this
inversion, the book repositions Jewish survival as the supplemental
effect and mask of a more capacious political theology of Christian
survival. The argument proceeds by taking major moments in
twentieth-century philosophy, theology, and political theory as
occasions for collecting the scattered elements of survival's
theological-political archive. Through readings of canonical texts
by secular and Jewish thinkers-Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin,
Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud-Stern shows that survival
belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignty and
subjection of Christ's body. Interrogating survival as a rhetorical
formation, the book intervenes in discussions about biopolitics,
secularism, political theology, and the philosophy of religion.
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