Ideology and the 'Liberation of Theology': The Role of Critique in Juan Luis Segundo and Slavoj Žižek
In: Political theology, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 211-226
ISSN: 1743-1719
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In: Political theology, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 211-226
ISSN: 1743-1719
In: Political theology, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 184-185
ISSN: 1743-1719
In: Political theology, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 376-378
ISSN: 1462-317X
In modern philosophy, the concept of ideology has been a problem for the relationship of theology to politics. Especially in its Marxist usage, "ideology" refers to a specific effect that theology has in modern society so as to conceal or hide the material facticity that shapes human life and practical activity. This is one of the many reasons why theology, even in its political form, has not taken up "ideology" as a matter inherent to its critical form. The absence of theoretical attention to ideology in theology itself has led to the deficit of immanent critique, especially in political theology. However, theology and ideology are showing up together in an area where one is least likely to expect it: radical critical theory. Critical theory has repeatedly taken up theology and ideology critique together, so as to use the emancipatory potential of theology to address major political questions amidst our acute awareness of social crisis and political impasse. My dissertation analyzes key theological and philosophical interlocutors (e.g., Slavoj Zizek, Johann Baptist Metz, Paul Tillich, Marcella Althaus-Reid, Theodor Adorno, etc) that represent major trajectories in these two discourses – modern political theology and contemporary political philosophy – in order to promote the role of immanent critique in political theology. This is important because it clarifies the function of ideology critique (and critique in general) in Christian political theology. It also foregrounds how contemporary theories of ideology are mediating the relation of theology to politics, a matter of increased importance given the recent "turn to religion" in contemporary politics and culture? Can political theology still provide norms for establishing a just, egalitarian, and solidaristic social order after critical theory? This dissertations sketches a critical theology that retrieves critique as an intrinsic theological concept in political theology; this redefines theology away providing norms and towards the practice of critique, but ...
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In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 20, Heft 2, S. 136-150
ISSN: 1470-1316
Introduction / Silas Morgan and Roberto Sirvent -- Part 1. Kierkegaard and political theology -- Destitution of sovereignty : the political theology of Soren Kierkegaard / Saitya Brata Das -- Kierkegaard and the critique of political theology / Anthony Rudd -- Johannes Climacus and the Two Kierkegaards : strategies for theology and social engagement / David Lappano -- Politics as indirect communication in the moment and the attack upon "christendom" / Stephen Backhouse -- Part 2. Kierkegaard and the politics of faith, hope, and love -- Downward bound : the knight of faith and the politics of grace / Heather C. Ohaneson -- Searching for a secular god : a prolegomena to a political theory of love / Jamie Aroosi -- Equality : a proposal rooted in Kierkegaards theological anthropology and theology of love / Natalia Marandiuc -- Loving the ones we see : Kierkegaards neighbor-love and the politics of pluralism / Jennifer Elisa Veninga -- Kierkegaard, Badiou, and christian hope / Vincent Lloyd -- Part 3. Kierkegaard and the politics of philosophy -- The time is out of joint : on social ontology and criticism in Kierkegaard and Heidegger / James D. Reid and Rick Anthony Furtak -- Kierkegaard's "single individual" and Hardt and Negri's "multitude : theological resources for a post-imperial political subjectivity / Silas Morgan and Kyle Roberts -- Tagore and Kierkegaard as resources for political theology / Abrahim H. Khan -- Theater, theology, and empowerment : Kierkegaard and Boal / Helene Russell -- Politicizing Kierkegaardian repetition : On Schmitt and Kierkegaard / Dana Lloyd -- Lost expectations : on Derrida's Abraham / Mary-Jane Rubenstein -- Part 4. Kierkegaard and the politics of theology -- On whose authority? Soren Kierkegaard and Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz on christian truth-witnessing / Mariana Alessandri -- Politics of the church, hidden and revealed, in Soren Kierkegaard and John Howard Yoder / Jason A. Mahn -- How (Not) to write a Kierkegaardian political theology : between Niebuhr and Levinas on anxiety, faith, and love/ Howard Pickett -- The spotlight and the "courage to be an absolute nobody" : toward a Kierkegaardian-Chestertonian political theology of ego / Roberto Sirvent and Duncan Reyburn -- Part 5. Kierkegaard and the politics of communication -- Kierkegaard's Dagdriver : loafing as a means of resistance to the technological, media, and consumer system / Bartholomew Ryan -- Soren Kierkegaard, indirect communication, and the strength of weak authority : a reflection on parliamentary democracy / Burkhard Conrad, OPL -- Sociological categories and the journey to selfhood : from the crowd to community / Matthew D. Kirkpatrick -- Kierkegaard and the politics of time / Kara N. Slade.
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