Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy

For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In...
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Author: Adam Y. Stern
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Language: English
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Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy by Stern, Adam Y.

Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy

¥25,943

Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy

¥25,943
Author: Adam Y. Stern
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation of survival as a contemporary regime of representation.

In Survival, Stern asks what texts, what institutions, and what traditions have made survival a recognizable element of our current political vocabulary. The book begins by suggesting that the interpretive key lies in the discursive prominence of Jewish survival. Yet the Jewish example, he argues, is less a marker of Jewish history than an index of Christianity's impact on the modern, secular, political imagination. With this inversion, the book repositions Jewish survival as the supplemental effect and mask of a more capacious political theology of Christian survival.

The argument proceeds by taking major moments in twentieth-century philosophy, theology, and political theory as occasions for collecting the scattered elements of survival's theological-political archive. Through readings of canonical texts by secular and Jewish thinkers--Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud--Stern shows that survival belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignty and subjection of Christ's body. Interrogating survival as a rhetorical formation, the book intervenes in discussions about biopolitics, secularism, political theology, and the philosophy of religion.

Author: Adam Y. Stern
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 03/26/2021
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780812252873

About the Author
Adam Y. Stern is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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