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Sacred and the Political

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781628925968
  • Weight: 549g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Jul 2016
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by René Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli and political modernity, up to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny interconnections of sacrality and politics in Western political thought and follow an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this volume also seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called 'age of globalization'.
About

Elisabetta Brighi is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. She is the author of Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations (2013) and Pragmatism in International Relations (2009), co-edited with Harry Bauer.

Antonio Ceralla is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His recent publications include: ‘Religion and political form: Carl Schmitt’s genealogy of politics as critique of Jürgen Habermas’s postsecular discourse’, Review of International Studies; ‘Terrorismo: Storia e Analisi di un concetto’ (2009); ‘Forme della violenza nel sistema contemporaneo’ (2010). He is currently co-editing and contributing to the Special Issue of the Journal of International Political Theory on ‘Mimetic Theory and International Studies’.