Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

God --- disenchantment --- atheist culture --- atheism --- the sacred --- the transcendental --- meaning --- self-consciousness

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Sovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the sacred and the sovereign as creating "states of exception"-that is, moments of rupture in the normative order that, by transcending this order, are capable of re-founding or remaking it-Robert A. Yelle identifies our secular, capitalist system as an attempt to exclude such moments by subordinating them to the calculability of laws and markets. The second step marshals evidence from history and anthropology that helps us to recognize the contribution of such states of exception to ethical life, as a means of release from the legal or economic order. Yelle draws on evidence from the Hebrew Bible to English deism, and from the Aztecs to ancient India, to develop a theory of polity that finds a place and a purpose for those aspects of religion that are often marginalized and dismissed as irrational by Enlightenment liberalism and utilitarianism. Developing this close analogy between two elemental domains of society, Sovereignty and the Sacred offers a new theory of religion while suggesting alternative ways of organizing our political and economic life. By rethinking the transcendent foundations and liberating potential of both religion and politics, Yelle points to more hopeful and ethical modes of collective life based on egalitarianism and popular sovereignty. Deliberately countering the narrowness of currently dominant economic, political, and legal theories, he demonstrates the potential of a revived history of religions to contribute to a rethinking of the foundations of our political and social order.

Religion and politics --- Philosophy. --- Carl Schmitt. --- Giorgio Agamben. --- Jubilee. --- Max Weber. --- charisma. --- disenchantment. --- rational choice theory. --- sacred. --- sacrifice. --- sovereignty.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

»Szenen einer missvergnügten Ehe« - dieses bürgerliche Trauerspiel wird derzeit auf den politischen Bühnen westlicher Demokratien gegeben. Es führt vor, wie weit sich Regierende und Regierte auseinander gelebt haben. Von heute auf morgen passiert so etwas nicht. Der Band lässt die wechselvolle Geschichte des Regierens Revue passieren und zeigt, wie angespannt das Verhältnis seit jeher gewesen ist. Dass Kanzler Könige und Bürger Bauern abgelöst haben, hat daran nichts geändert. Andererseits hält diese Mesalliance erstaunlich viel aus - selbst nach blutigen Konflikten arrangiert man sich wieder und findet ein neues Gleichgewicht der Frustration. Die Hoffnung, es gehe trotz allem stetig aufwärts, muss derzeit wieder einmal begraben werden. »Eine ideengeschichtlich ebenso informierte, pointierte wie auch kritische Bestandsaufnahme.« Matthias Lemke, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 08.12.2016 »Insgesamt ist das glänzend geschriebene Buch eine erhellende Lektüre. Auch für Regenten.« Michael Schornstheimer, Deutschlandradio Kultur, 26.11.2016 Besprochen in: public, 11 (2016) www.maecenata.eu, 3 (2016)

Democracy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Disenchantment With Politics. --- History. --- Loyality. --- Neoliberalism. --- Political Science. --- Political Theory. --- Politics. --- Representation. --- Repression. --- Resistance. --- Souvereignty. --- Regieren; Widerstand; Souveränität; Repräsentation; Repression; Loyalität; Politikverdrossenheit; Neoliberalismus; Politik; Politische Theorie; Demokratie; Geschichtswissenschaft; Politikwissenschaft; Governance; Resistance; Souvereignty; Representation; Loyality; Disenchantment With Politics; Neoliberalism; Politics; Political Theory; Democracy; History; Political Science

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

disenchantment of the West --- the re-enchantment of the West --- new religions --- alternative spiritualities --- occulture --- wellbeing --- the Holistic milieu --- healthcare --- eco-enchantment --- the contemporaray sacralization of psychedelics --- cyberspirituality --- the sacralization of the extraterrestrial --- contemporary Western demonology --- eschatological re-enchantment

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive in-depth interviews with former secret police officers and the dissidents they tried to control as well as research into the documents both groups produced. In particular, Glaeser analyzes how these two opposing factions' understanding of the socialist project came to change in response to countless everyday experiences. These investigations culminate in answers to two questions: why did the officers not defend socialism by force? And how was the formation of dissident understandings possible in a state that monopolized mass communication and group formation? He also explores why the Stasi, although always well informed about dissident activities, never developed a realistic understanding of the phenomenon of dissidence. Out of this ambitious study, Glaeser extracts two distinct lines of thought. On the one hand he offers an epistemic account of socialism's failure that differs markedly from existing explanations. On the other hand he develops a theory-a sociology of understanding-that shows us how knowledge can appear validated while it is at the same time completely misleading.

Socialism --- Germany (East). --- Germany (Democratic Republic, 1949- ). --- Stasi --- MfS --- Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR --- Germany (East) --- Politics and government. --- secret police, east germany, socialism, dissolution, politics, government, dissidents, political prisoners, revolution, resistance, protest, military, mass communication, group formation, stasi, rebellion, right consciousness, marx, party state, totalitarianism, opposition, nonfiction, history, men, masculinity, manhood, citizen, subject, authority, networks, discourse, disenchantment, disengagement, ideology.