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Author_Michael Weinman
Carl Schmitt
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Giorgio Agamben
Hannah Arendt
Late Modernity
Max Weber
political philosophy
political theology
Political Theory
Post-Secularism
religion
Seyla Benhabib
Weimar Republic
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- ISBN 9781399525541
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Political Theology of Hannah Arendt clarifies how to understand Arendt's arguments about freedom, collective action, and the problem of evil as political theological, rather than political theoretical or philosophical. To achieve this, Weinman offers a comparative reading of Arendt's engagement with Augustine, from her 1929 dissertation through to The Life of the Mind, which she was working on when she died in 1975. Weinman's innovation is to not only read both works together, but to also read them in light of Arendt's discussion of Augustine in key passages taken from all her works written in the decades between them. Arendt's attempt to reconcile liberal commitments with the Augustinian tradition makes clear why Arendt and not Carl Schmitt ought to be read as offering the preeminent response to Max Weber's theory of modernity as inescapably secular, the result of irreversible processes of disenchantment.
Michael D. Weinman is Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Jewish Studies at Indiana University
