Considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain.
Arthur Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy; Derrida's of Grammatology: A Philosophical Guide and (with Andrew Tate) The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic after 9/11. Paul Fletcher (1965-2008) was Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of Disciplining the Divine: Toward an (Im)political Theology.
Introduction
Questioning Political Religion
Messianic Politics: A Secular Response
Politics without the Messianic or a 'Messianic without Messianism'?: A Response to Richard Beardswiorth
'Messianic Power' for a Secular Generation
Are We Really Secular?: The Limits of la-vie-la-mort
Questioning Political Modernity
Economies of Promise: Fiscal and Christian, Philip Goodchild
Messianic Deposition: Representation and the Flight of the Gods
Hegel: The Messianic and the Dialectic of Secularism
The Politics of Grace: Hobbes and Redemption from Nature
Minimal Messianity in Benjamin
The Kat-echon and Schmitt
Weak Messianic Power and the Holocaust
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