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Book SynopsisAgainst traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Immanence, Genealogy, Delegitimation | 1
Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet
1 Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction | 35
Kirill Chepurin
2 Utopia and Political Theology in the “Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism” | 54
S. D. Chrostowska
3 Relational Division | 73
Daniel Colucciello Barber
4 Otherwise Than Terror: Ten Theses on the Modernist Secular | 87
Daniel Whistler
5 Kant’s Unexpected Materialism: How the Object Saves Kant (and Us) from the Moral Law | 104
James Martel
6 Earth Unbounded: Division and Inseparability in Hölderlin and Günderrode | 124
Joseph Albernaz
7 Kant with Sade with Hegel: The Death of God and the Joy of Reason | 144
Oxana Timofeeva
8 A Political Theology of Tolerance: Universalism and the Tragic Position of the Religious Minority | 160
Thomas Lynch
9 Hegel, Blackness, Sovereignty | 174
Vincent Lloyd
10 Political Theology of the Death of God: Hegel and Derrida | 188
Agata Bielik-Robson
11 Exception without Sovereignty: The Kenotic Eschatology of Schelling | 207
Saitya Brata Das
12 Once More, from Below: The Concept of Reduplication and the Immanence of Political Theology | 223
Steven Shakespeare
13 On the General Secular Contradiction: Secularization, Christianity, and Political Theology | 240
Alex Dubilet
List of Contributors | 257
Index | 261
