This book addresses two main questions. Can political theology be
overcome? And, is what today - in referring to neoliberalism and
its genealogy - many define as "economic theology" truly an
alternative to political theology, as Foucault has claimed and as
Agamben does today? As a first step, the book addresses and
clarifies various misunderstandings about the notion of political
theology, in its multiple and even opposite meanings. It then
focuses on a conceptualisation inaugurated by Carl Schmitt, which
sees political theology as the eloquent matrix of modern politics:
insofar as the latter produces and continuously re-elaborates an
"excess" that does not belong to it, its core remains
theological-political, although secularised. The bulk of the book
then pursues a reading of the analogic connection between
juridico-political concepts and theological-metaphysical concepts;
arguing that, although the 'turn' to economic theology is indeed
another form of political theology, it is a deeply anti-political
one, which forecloses modes of resistance. The book will be of
interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students in the
fields of modern political and legal philosophy and those
researching the crisis of its legacy. In particular, it is
addressed to those who study the relationship between theology (and
its substitutes, such as hegemony and political myth) and politics,
power and law, legitimacy and legality, in the perspective of
secularization. In addition, the book offers a contribution to
contemporary critical studies on the neoliberal state and the
return of the "state of exception" in democracies, as well as a
questioning of the moralization of law, which is an effect of
globalist ideology and the "humanitarian turn" after 1989.
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