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Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Kierkegaard and Political Theology -- Chapter 1: Destitution of Sovereignty -- Chapter 2: Kierkegaard and the Critique of Political Theology -- Chapter 3: Johannes Climacus and Two Kierkegaards -- Chapter 4: Politics as Indirect Communication in The Moment and the Attack upon "Christendom" -- Part 2: Kierkegaard and the Politics of Faith, Hope, and Love -- Chapter 5: Downward Bound -- Chapter 6: Searching for a Secular God -- Chapter 7: Equality -- Chapter 8: Loving the Ones We See -- Chapter 9: Kierkegaard, Badiou, and Christian Hope -- Part 3: Kierkegaard and the Politics of Philosophy -- Chapter 10: The Time Is Out of Joint -- Chapter 11: Kierkegaard's "Single Individual" and Hardt and Negri's "Multitude" -- Chapter 12: Tagore and Kierkegaard as Resources for Political Theology -- Chapter 13: Theater, Theology, and Empowerment -- Chapter 14: Politicizing Kierkegaardian Repetition -- Chapter 15: Lost Expectations -- Part 4: Kierkegaard and the Politics of Theology -- Chapter 16: On Whose Authority? -- Chapter 17: Politics of the Church, Hidden and Revealed, in Søren Kierkegaard and John Howard Yoder -- Chapter 18: How (Not) to Write a Kierkegaardian Political Theology -- Chapter 19: The Spotlight and the "Courage to Be an Absolute Nobody" -- Part 5: Kierkegaard and the Politics of Communication -- Chapter 20: Kierkegaard's Dagdriver -- Chapter 21: Søren Kierkegaard, Indirect Communication, and the Strength of Weak Authority -- Chapter 22: Sociological Categories and the Journey to Selfhood -- Chapter 23: Kierkegaard and the Politics of Time.

"This book addresses two main questions. Can political theology be overcome? And, is what today - in referring to neoliberalism and its genealogy - many define as "economic theology" truly an alternative to political theology, as Foucault has claimed and as Agamben does today? As a first step, the book addresses and clarifies various misunderstandings about the notion of political theology, in its multiple and even opposite meanings. It then focuses on a conceptualisation inaugurated by Carl Schmitt, which sees political theology as the eloquent matrix of modern politics: insofar as the latter produces and continuously re-elaborates an "excess" that does not belong to it, its core remains theological-political, although secularised. The bulk of the book then pursues a reading of the analogic connection between juridico-political concepts and theological-metaphysical concepts; arguing that, although the 'turn' to economic theology is indeed another form of political theology, it is a deeply anti-political one, which forecloses modes of resistance. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students in the fields of modern political and legal philosophy and those researching the crisis of its legacy. In particular, it is addressed to those who study the relationship between theology (and its substitutes, such as hegemony and political myth) and politics, power and law, legitimacy and legality, in the perspective of secularization. In addition, the book offers a contribution to contemporary critical studies on the neoliberal state and the return of the "state of exception" in democracies, as well as a questioning of the moralization of law, which is an effect of globalist ideology and the "humanitarian turn" after 1989"--