The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology
A Theory, Theology, Philosophy book. A bit complex of psychoanalysis reading of the neighbour, maybe because I'm not used to the dialetical arguments of the...
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...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780226707396 / 226707393
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A bit complex of psychoanalysis reading of the neighbour, maybe because I'm not used to the dialetical arguments of the other two authors. Nevertheless, it does provide great insights on the topic of "neighbour", and the lower rating is only due to first-time read. Will definitely be higher for the second read. Good thing I know tons about psychoanalysis, or else this would have been confusing. No, but really, psychoanalysis remains the one field that can make me laugh out loud with how confusing and/or ridiculous the analysis becomes (I especially liked when Zizek compared psychoanalysts to the monster from Alien). Nevertheless the book was... Books like this one make philosophy look bad. The authors have no clear position, no clear arguments, they don't explain the distinctions they make, and they throw in a bunch of weird technical terms and graphs that add to the confusion.
