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Wir sind gerne für Sie daStrange Gods provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different from its religious antecedents, and that modernity involved a repudiation of theological concepts. Peter Fitzpatrick charts the lineage of this secular theology through three ‘historicities’: the creation of the world’s imperium, of the modern world-system, in the sixteenth century; the time of revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and the high modernism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Respectively condensed here in the writings of Vitoria, Hobbes and Nietzsche, Fitzpatrick documents the substitution of a monotheistic God by successive articulations of a persistently 'deific' law. Strange Gods thus questions the story of secularism’s triumph, by eliciting the essentially religious force of modern law: a force that is, moreover, recognisable in secularism's contemporary imperial mission.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780415560146
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-415-56014-6
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.07.2019
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2019
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Seiten: 208
- Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt