Politics & Apocalypse (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Series) (Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Series) | 
| Creators: Robert Hamerton-kelly, William Johnsen
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
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Pages: 266
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0870138111
Dewey Decimal Number: 901
EAN: 9780870138119
ASIN: 0870138111
Publication Date: January 8, 2008
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Product Description
Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is revelation or unveiling, the basis from which renowned theologian Rene Girard builds his own view
of Biblical apocalypse. Properly understood, Girard explains, Biblical apocalypse has nothing to do with a wrathful or vengeful God
punishing his unworthy children, and everything to do with a foretelling of what future humans are making for themselves now that they have devised the instruments of global
self-destruction. In this volume, some of the major thinkers about the interpenetration of politics and religion including Eric
Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Carl Schmitt are
scrutinized by some of today's most qualified
scholars, all of whom are thoroughly versed
in Girard's groundbreaking work.
Including an important new essay by
Girard, this volume enters into a philosophical
debate that challenges the bona fides of
philosophy itself by examining three supremely important philosopher of the twentieth century. It asks how we might think about politics now that the attacks of 9/11 have shifted our intellectual foundations and what the outbreak of rabid religion might signify for international politics.
Politics and Apocalypse is the inaugural issue of the Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture book series, which continues in the tradition of Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. This journal follows the research agenda of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, an international association that draws inspiration from Rene Girard s mimetic hypothesis on the relationship between violence and religion, elaborated in a stunning series of books he has written over the last forty years.
CONTRIBUTORS
Rene Girard, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language and Literature, Stanford University; Member, Academie francaise
Robert Hamerton-Kelly, Volume Editor and Senior
Research Scholar Emeritus, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University
Jozef Niewladomski, Dean, Faculty of Theology, Innsbruck
Stefan Rossbach, Centre for the Study of Politics and Spirituality, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
John Ranieri, Professor of Philosophy, Seton Hall University
Fred Lawrence, Professor of Theology, Boston College
Peter Thiel, Independent Scholar, Founder/CEO of PayPal, President of Clarium Capital Management
Wolfgang Palaver, Professor and Chair, Institute of Systematic Theology, Innsbruck
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