The Neighbor - Three Inquiries in Political Theology (Hardcover)

In "Civilization and Its Discontents," Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19: 18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. "Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it," he proposed, "as though we were hearing it for the first time; we shall be unable then to suppress a feeling of surprise and bewilderment." After the horrors of World War II, the Holocaust, Stalinism, and Yugoslavia, Leviticus 19: 18 seems even less conceivable--but all the more urgent now--than Freud imagined.
In "The Neighbor," three of the most significant intellectuals working in psychoanalysis and critical theory collaborate to show how this problem of neighbor-love opens questions that are fundamental to ethical inquiry and that suggest a new theological configuration of political theory. Their three extended essays explore today's central historical problem: the persistence of the theological in the political. In "Towards a Political Theology of the Neighbor," Kenneth Reinhard supplements Carl Schmitt's political theology of the enemy and friend with a political theology of the neighbor based in psychoanalysis. In "Miracles Happen," Eric L. Santner extends the book's exploration of neighbor-love through a bracing reassessment of Benjamin and Rosenzweig. And in an impassioned plea for ethical violence, Slavoj Zižek's "Neighbors and Other Monsters" reconsiders the idea of excess to rehabilitate a positive sense of the inhuman and challenge the influence of Levinas on contemporary ethical thought.
A rich and suggestive account of the interplay between love and hate, self and other, personal andpolitical, "The Neighbor" will prove to be a touchstone across the humanities and a crucial text for understanding the persistence of political theology in secular modernity.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Religion and Postmodernism
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	Slavoj Zizek • Eric L. Santner • Kenneth Reinhard
Dimensions:	236 x 158 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-70738-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
LSN:	0-226-70738-5
Barcode:	9780226707389

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