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Theopolitical Figures

Scripture, Prophecy, Oath, Charisma, Hospitality

Montserrat Herrero

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English
Edinburgh University Press
08 November 2023
The book addresses the question of the extent to which theological discourse has been and is relevant to the origins of the meanings, symbols, and realities of some instituted political practices. This relevance has historically manifested itself in the hybridisation of theological and political concepts, images, gestures, and rituals. Indeed, some divine traces could be seen as embedded in institutionalised political practices. Theopolitical figures, then, are other names for God - in the sense of negative theology - that we find in instituted practices within the political realm. The book considers five theopolitical figures: scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma, and hospitality. In the symbolic meaning of these figures, we discern some central questions for contemporary societies, among them: the unconditional character of justice, the unfeasibility of historical expectation, the stability of the given word, the idea of power as a gift, and openness to the coming other as an ethical-political imperative.
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Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781399522915
ISBN 10:   1399522914
Series:   Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History
Pages:   272
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Montserrat Herrero is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, where she is also the PI of the research project 'Religion and civil society'. She is the director of the Journal Anuario Filos fico. She is widely published in topics related to the political philosophy, in particular, on Hegel, Hobbes, Locke and Spinoza. She is the author of Le Sacr et la Parole. Le Serment au Moyen Age, with M. Aurell and J. Aurell (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018); Political Theology in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Discourses, Rites and Representations with Aurell, J., Miceli, A. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017) and The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt. A Mystic of Order (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

Reviews for Theopolitical Figures: Scripture, Prophecy, Oath, Charisma, Hospitality

""The relationship between the sacred and the civil defines the stakes of a postsecular era. Montserrat Herrero's new book is a significant contribution to rethinking the political as a figure of the divine and the divine as the apophatic engine of the political. The booming literature on political theology is enriched with an indispensable volume."" -Vassilios Paipais, University of St Andrews


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