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Politics and the Sacred (Paperback)
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Politics and the Sacred (Paperback)
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This path-breaking book argues that practices of the sacred are
constitutive of modern secular politics. Following a tradition of
enquiry in anthropology and political theory, it examines how limit
situations shape the political imagination and collective identity.
As an experiential and cultural fact, the sacred emerges within,
and simultaneously transcends, transgressive dynamics such as
revolutions, wars or globalisation. Rather than conceive the sacred
as a religious doctrine or a metaphysical belief, Wydra examines
its adaptive functions as origins, truths and order which are
historically contingent across time and transformative of political
aspirations. He suggests that the brokenness of political reality
is a permanent condition of humanity, which will continue to
produce quests for the sacred, and transcendental political frames.
Working in the spirit of the genealogical mode of enquiry, this
book examines the secular sources of political theologies, the
democratic sacred, the communist imagination, European political
identity, the sources of human rights and the relationship of
victimhood to new wars.
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