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Modern destinations. Political theology and liberal culture: Strauss, Schmitt, Spinoza, and Arendt / Victoria Kahn ; The tragicity of the political: a note on Carlo Galli's Reading of Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba / Adam Sitze ; Hamlet: representation and the concrete / Carlo Galli ; Blumenberg and Schmitt on the rhetoric of political theology / Graham Hammill ; Political theologies of the corpus mysticum: Schmitt, Kantorowicz and de Lubac / Jennifer Rust ; Dead neighbor archives: Jews, Muslims, and the enemy's two bodies / Kathleen Biddick ; Novus Ordo Saeclorum: Hannah Arendt on revolutionary spirit / Paul A. Kottman ; Force and justice: Auerbach's Pascal / Jane O. Newman -- Scenes of early modernity. The instance of the sovereign in the unconscious: the primal scenes of political theology / Jacques Lezra ; Pauline edifications: staging the sovereign softscape in Renaissance England / Julia Reinhard Lupton ; Striking the French match: Jean Bodin, Queen Elizabeth, and the occultation of sovereign marriage / Drew Daniel ; The death of Christ in and as secular law / Gregory Kneidel ; Samson uncircumcised / Jonathan Goldberg ; Postscript: The idea of a "New Enlightenment" [Nouvelles Lumières] and the contradictions of universalism / Étienne Balibar.

While 'political theology' has attracted widespread attention for decades, it is often taken to be too fideist for orthodox Christianity and too illiberal for secular politics. But in the work of Jacques Maritain one finds a defence of a certain political theology, one whose character is key to grasping Maritain's justification of another controversial concept: 'Christian philosophy'. In this study I draw out Maritain's distinction between Christian philosophy and theology, paying particular attention to the relevance of their differences in the realm of practical thought. To illustrate what Maritain has in mind by these claims, I further consider his intriguing classification of the political works of Thomas Aquinas. I argue that distinguishing between rival notions of political theology clarifies the opportunities for dialogue between believing and secular citizens.

Is contemporary international order truly a secular arrangement? William Bain challenges this narrative by arguing that modern theories of international order reflect ideas that originate in medieval theology.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: The Exit and the Event -- Introduction -- 1 Actuality Without Potentiality -- 2 The Rhythm of History -- 3 The Beatific Life -- 4 The Irreducible Remainder -- 5 The Non-Sovereign Exception -- 6 The Tragic Dissonance -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index

Can secularisation in the legal and political domains settle modernity's scores with religion?Anton Schütz and Marinos Diamantides provide a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. Questions the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt's political theologyBuilds upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben's close-reading of Christian government as managementIdentifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudenceConcludes that what the West's secular universality is passing off as 'politics' or 'law' is really an attempt to manage its own dwindling primacy