Research Catalog

Title

Apocalyptic political theology : Hegel, Taubes and Malabou / Thomas Lynch.

Author

Lynch, Thomas

Publication

• London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
• ©2019

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Description

xiii, 200 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Hegel's philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology. When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and politics, this political theology is a resource for apocalyptic thinking. In a world of climate change, inequality, oppressive gender roles and racism, Hegel can be used to theorise the hope found in the end of that world. Histories of apocalyptic thinking draw a line connecting the medieval prophet Joachim of Fiore and Marx. This line passes through Hegel, who transforms the relationship between philosophy and theology by philosophically employing theological concepts to critique the world. Jacob Taubes provides an example of this Hegelian political theology, weaving Christianity, Judaism and philosophy to develop an apocalypticism that is not invested in the world. Taubes awaits the end of the world knowing that apocalyptic destruction is also a form of creation. Catherine Malabou discusses this relationship between destruction and creation in terms of plasticity. Using plasticity to reformulate apocalypticism allows for a form of apocalyptic thinking that is immanent and materialist. Together Hegel, Taubes and Malabou provide the resources for thinking about why the world should end. The resulting apocalyptic pessimism is not passive, but requires an active refusal of the world.

Series Statement

Political theologies

Uniform Title

Political theologies.

Subjects

• Religion > Philosophy
• Political theology
• Taubes, Jacob
• Malabou, Catherine
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-196) and index.

Contents

1. Philosophy, political theology and the end of the world -- 2. Implicit political theology: Reading Hegel's philosophy of religion -- 3. Spiritual disinvestment: Taubes, Hegel and apocalypticism -- 4. Plastic apocalypticism -- 5. Pessimism and hope in apocalyptic living.

Call Number

JFE 19-4119

ISBN

• 1350064742
• 9781350064744

OCLC

1030381184

Author

Lynch, Thomas, author.

Title

Apocalyptic political theology : Hegel, Taubes and Malabou / Thomas Lynch.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Political theologies

Political theologies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-196) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4119