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Survival : A Theological-Political Genealogy / Adam Y. Stern.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Intellectual History of the Modern AgePublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 0Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812297867
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.7
LOC classification:
  • BT83.59 .S74 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. Beginnings -- CHAPTER 1 The Elements of Survivalism -- CHAPTER 2 The Archaeology of Survival -- CHAPTER 3 The Imitation of Christ -- CHAPTER 4 The Sovereign in the Age of Its Eucharistic Reproducibility -- CHAPTER 5 The Empty Tomb -- EPILOGUE Other Thoughts -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation of survival as a contemporary regime of representation.In Survival, Stern asks what texts, what institutions, and what traditions have made survival a recognizable element of our current political vocabulary. The book begins by suggesting that the interpretive key lies in the discursive prominence of "Jewish survival." Yet the Jewish example, he argues, is less a marker of Jewish history than an index of Christianity's impact on the modern, secular, political imagination. With this inversion, the book repositions Jewish survival as the supplemental effect and mask of a more capacious political theology of Christian survival.The argument proceeds by taking major moments in twentieth-century philosophy, theology, and political theory as occasions for collecting the scattered elements of survival's theological-political archive. Through readings of canonical texts by secular and Jewish thinkers—Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud—Stern shows that survival belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignty and subjection of Christ's body. Interrogating survival as a rhetorical formation, the book intervenes in discussions about biopolitics, secularism, political theology, and the philosophy of religion.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. Beginnings -- CHAPTER 1 The Elements of Survivalism -- CHAPTER 2 The Archaeology of Survival -- CHAPTER 3 The Imitation of Christ -- CHAPTER 4 The Sovereign in the Age of Its Eucharistic Reproducibility -- CHAPTER 5 The Empty Tomb -- EPILOGUE Other Thoughts -- NOTES -- INDEX

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For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation of survival as a contemporary regime of representation.In Survival, Stern asks what texts, what institutions, and what traditions have made survival a recognizable element of our current political vocabulary. The book begins by suggesting that the interpretive key lies in the discursive prominence of "Jewish survival." Yet the Jewish example, he argues, is less a marker of Jewish history than an index of Christianity's impact on the modern, secular, political imagination. With this inversion, the book repositions Jewish survival as the supplemental effect and mask of a more capacious political theology of Christian survival.The argument proceeds by taking major moments in twentieth-century philosophy, theology, and political theory as occasions for collecting the scattered elements of survival's theological-political archive. Through readings of canonical texts by secular and Jewish thinkers—Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud—Stern shows that survival belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignty and subjection of Christ's body. Interrogating survival as a rhetorical formation, the book intervenes in discussions about biopolitics, secularism, political theology, and the philosophy of religion.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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