TY - BOOK ID - 79183825 TI - Civil religion : a dialogue in the history of political philosophy PY - 2011 SN - 9780521506366 9780521738439 9780511763144 9780511909641 0511909640 051176314X 0521506360 0521738431 1107215536 0511851480 1282907913 9786612907913 0511908873 051190813X 0511906846 0511905564 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Political science KW - State, The KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - History KW - Philosophy&delete& KW - History of theories KW - History. KW - Philosophy KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79183825 AB - Civil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It examines four important traditions within the history of modern political philosophy. The civil religion tradition, principally defined by Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau, seeks to domesticate religion by putting it solidly in the service of politics. The liberal tradition pursues an alternative strategy of domestication by seeking to put as much distance as possible between religion and politics. Modern theocracy is a militant reaction against liberalism, reversing the relationship of subordination asserted by civil religion. Finally, a fourth tradition is defined by Nietzsche and Heidegger. Aspects of their thought are not just modern, but hyper-modern, yet they manifest an often-hysterical reaction against liberalism that is fundamentally shared with the theocratic tradition. Together, these four traditions compose a vital dialogue that carries us to the heart of political philosophy itself. ER -