Order, Crisis, and Redemption

Political Theology after Schmitt

Peter Langford, Saul Newman

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English

State University of New York Press
01 July 2023

Social & political philosophy; Christianity; Christian theology; Political science & theory; Jurisprudence & general issues

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.

Recent events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, the rise of right-wing populism, the growing economic inequality and political instability, and the climate emergency, are indicative of the decomposition of the global liberal democratic order. Order, Crisis, and Redemption is a critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, an attempt to think, with and beyond Schmitt, about the parameters of this crisis. Through a sustained critical engagement, ranging over Schmittian texts, including the lesser known, from the 1920s to the 1970s, the book elaborates three main themes that preoccupied Schmitt: order, crisis, and redemption. In times of crisis, as with the one we are currently experiencing, we are faced with the dilemma of either shoring up the current political and legal order-through ever more authoritarian measures-or radically transforming it. Redemption, in the full theological sense of the word, thus implies the possibility of a new understanding of ethics and politics, aimed at creating a more just world.

By: Peter Langford, Saul Newman
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 413g
ISBN: 9781438493442
ISBN 10: 1438493444
Pages: 241
Publication Date: 01 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. From States of Emergency to Forms of the Political 2. Who Is the Subject of Political Theology? 3. Person, Identity, Transformation 4. Political Theology and the Anthropocene 5. Technology as Political Theology 6. Political Theology and Democratic Constitutionalism 7. Political Theology and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Constitutionalism 8. Katechon and the Problem of Order Coda Notes References Index

Peter Langford is Senior Lecturer in Law at Edge Hill University in England. His many books include Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political. Saul Newman is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths University of London. He is the author of many books, including Political Theology: A Critical Introduction.

Reviews for Order, Crisis, and Redemption: Political Theology after Schmitt

"""Order, Crisis, and Redemption uses an original and scholarly reevaluation of Carl Schmitt's political theology as a springboard for addressing key political issues of the day, such as climate change and the Anthropocene, Neoliberalism, populism, and the decline of the nation-state as a viable political structure for taking humanity into the foreseeable future. It also engages, in a masterful and enlightening fashion, with commentaries on Schmitt (Agamben, Böckenforde). Particularly insightful is the way the work invokes Schmitt's catholic background and catholic theology as a way of clarifying the rationale for Schmitt's approach to a range of issues, but especially the notions of sovereignty and democracy.""—John Lechte, author of The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life"