A01=Anton Schtz
A01=Anton Schutz
A01=Marinos Diamantides
Aristotle
Author_Anton Schtz
Author_Anton Schutz
Author_Marinos Diamantides
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Christianity
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John Duns Scotus
Law
Religion
Secularization
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- ISBN 9780748697762
- Weight: 274g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 May 2017
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book provides a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history.
While accepting that foundational issues of religions weigh heavier than political philosophy’s aspirations, the authors question the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitt’s political theology, building instead upon a refined version of Giorgio Agamben’s close-reading of Christian government as management. The book identifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudence and concludes that the West’s secular universality is passing off as politics or law what is really the management of its own dwindling primacy.
Marinos Diamantides is Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of The Ethics of Suffering (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of Islam, Law and Identity (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011) and Law, Levinas, Politics (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009). Anton Schütz is an Honorary Fellow of Kent Law School, University of Kent. He is co-editor of the book series Encounters in Law and Philosophy (EUP). His current studies focus on right-centred vs. law-centred normative orders
