The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion by Brighi, Elisabetta

The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781628925968)

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The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion by Brighi, Elisabetta

The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion

$175.00
The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion by Brighi, Elisabetta

The Sacred and the Political: Explorations on Mimesis, Violence and Religion

$175.00
Format: Hardcover
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What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by Ren Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli and political modernity, up to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny interconnections of sacrality and politics in Western political thought and follow an unexplored yet critical path from ancient Greece to our post-secular condition. While looking at the past, this volume also seeks to illuminate the future relevance of the sacred/secular divide in the so-called 'age of globalization'.

Author: Elisabetta Brighi
ISBN-10: 1628925965
ISBN-13: 9781628925968
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2016
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d
By Elisabetta Brighi
By Elisabetta Brighi
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Elisabetta Brighi is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Studies, POLIS, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations (2013) and Pragmatism in International Relations (2009), co-edited with Harry Bauer.

Antonio Ceralla is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His recent publications include: 'Religion and political form: Carl Schmitt's genealogy of politics as critique of J?gen Habermas's postsecular discourse', Review of International Studies; 'Terrorismo: Storia e Analisi di un concetto' (2009); 'Forme della violenza nel sistema contemporaneo' (2010). He is currently co-editing and contributing to the Special Issue of the Journal of International Political Theory on 'Mimetic Theory and International Studies'.

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