Book: The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government
Just published in English: The Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, on the Schmitt/Peterson debate, Kantorowicz, and political theology, in "The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government", trans. Lorenzo Chiesa, with Matteo Mandarini (Stanford University Press, September 2011).
Excerpt: "[T]wo broadly speaking political paradigms, antinomical but functionally related to one another, derive from Christian theology: political theology, which founds the transcendence of sovereign power on the single God, and economic theology, which replaces this transcendence with the idea of an oikonomia, conceived as an immanent ordering - domestic and not political in a strict sense - of both divine and human life. Political philosophy and the modern theory of sovereignty derive from the first paradigm; modern biopolitics up to the current triumph of economy and government over every other aspect of social life derive from the second paradigm."
Just published in English: The Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, on the Schmitt/Peterson debate, Kantorowicz, and political theology, in "The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government", trans. Lorenzo Chiesa, with Matteo Mandarini (Stanford University Press, September 2011).
Excerpt: "[T]wo broadly speaking political paradigms, antinomical but functionally related to one another, derive from Christian theology: political theology, which founds the transcendence of sovereign power on the single God, and economic theology, which replaces this transcendence with the idea of an oikonomia, conceived as an immanent ordering - domestic and not political in a strict sense - of both divine and human life. Political philosophy and the modern theory of sovereignty derive from the first paradigm; modern biopolitics up to the current triumph of economy and government over every other aspect of social life derive from the second paradigm."
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