Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
A Law, Political Science, Theology book. This is a perplexing book. But mostly because it claims to be Four NEW...
In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn...
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Kahn argues that liberal theory fails to provide an adequate account of actual political experience, even in liberal states. By liberal theory he means the idea that politics can be reduced to either deductive reasoning about justice or the pursuit of material interests. The materialist explanation of politics denies the capacity for... This is a perplexing book. But mostly because it claims to be Four NEW Chapters on Schmitt's Political Theology, when in fact it is primarily a rather pedestrian exegesis of Schmitt's own work. Kahn steps through all the key points made by other writers on Schmitt offering numerous contemporary "examples". It almost reads like a "Carl...
