{"product_id":"political-theology-and-law-9781032357249","title":"Political Theology and Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses two main questions. Can political theology be overcome? And, is what today  in referring to neoliberalism and its genealogy  many define as economic theology truly an alternative to political theology, as Foucault has claimed and as Agamben does today? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a first step, the book addresses and clarifies various misunderstandings about the notion of political theology, in its multiple and even opposite meanings. It then focuses on a conceptualisation inaugurated by Carl Schmitt, which sees political theology as the eloquent matrix of modern politics: insofar as the latter produces and continuously re-elaborates an excess that does not belong to it, its core remains theological-political, although secularised. The bulk of the book then pursues a reading of the analogic connection between juridico-political concepts and theological-metaphysical concepts; arguing that, although the turn' to economic theology is indeed another form of political theology, it is a\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019000676695,"sku":"9781032357249","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/political-theology-and-law-9781032357249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}