Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt written by Jens Meierhenrich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German theorist whose anti-liberalism continues to inspire scholars and practitioners on both the Left and the Right. Despite Schmitt's rabid anti-semitism and partisan legal practice in Nazi Germany, the appeal of his trenchant critiques of, among other things, aestheticism, representative democracy, and international law as well as of his theoretical justifications of dictatorship and rule by exception is undiminished. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, this volume brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography. The contributors hail from diverse disciplines, including art, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and history. In addition to opening up exciting new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt provides the intellectual foundations for an improved understanding of the political, legal, and cultural thought of this most infamous of German theorists. A substantial introduction places the trinity of Schmitt's thought in a broad context.

Download or read book Religion Law and Democracy written by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930-2019) was one of Europe's foremost legal scholars and political thinkers. As a scholar of constitutional law and a judge on Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (1983-1996), Böckenförde was a major contributor to contemporary debates in legal and political theory, to the conceptual framework of the modern state and its presuppositions, and to contested political issues such as the constitutional status of the state of emergency, citizenship rights, bioethical politics, and the challenges of European integration. His writings have shaped not only academic but also wider public debates from the 1950s to the present, to an extent that few European scholars can match. As a federal constitutional judge and holder of a trusted public office, Böckenförde has influenced the way academics and citizens think about law and politics. During his tenure on the Court, several path-breaking decisions for the Federal Republic of Germany were handed down, including decisions on the deployment of missiles, the law on political parties, the regulation of abortion, and the process of European integration. This second volume in the first representative edition in English of Böckenförde's writings brings together his essays on religion, law, and democracy. The volume is organized in five sections: I. the Catholic Church and Political Order; II. State and Secularity; III. the Theology of Law and its Relation to Political Theory; IV. Norms and the Principle of Human Dignity; and V. Excerpts from a biographical interview. Sections I, II, III, and IV are preceded by an editors' introduction to the articles as well as running editorial commentary to the work.

Download or read book Liberating the Future written by Joerg Rieger and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume illustrious liberation theologians succinctly map the liberation terrain for the new century. Writing from a variety of standpoints - the African American community, feminist struggles, and social locations in Europe, North America, and Latin America - these leading thinkers reflect on the vastly changed context of and challenges to liberation. Their reflections directly address the new situation, especially the emergence of a global market economy, shifting structures of oppression, and the advent of multiculturalism and postmodernism.

Download or read book Carl Schmitt Die Dialektik Der Moderne written by Andreas Heuer and published by Duncker & Humblot. This book was released on 2010 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HauptbeschreibungCarl Schmitt und besonders sein politisches Denken sind nach wie vor umstritten. Dies ist auf Grund seiner Verstrickungen in den Nationalsozialismus verstnndlich. Gleichwohl finden sich Ansntze, die auch heute noch aktuell und bedenkenswert sind. Hierzu znhlen seine Ausfhrungen ber den Ausnahmezustand, seine Unterscheidung von kommissarischer und souvernner Diktatur, seine Analysen des europnischen VAlkerrechts sowie seine Kritik an einem einseitigen Wertdenken.Andreas Heuer versucht in der vorliegenden Studie, Schmitts Denken zu rekonstruieren, wobei dessen Texte selber zur Sprache kommen. Die Ausfhrungen kreisen um die zentralen Punkte, die Schmitt in einen grAeren historischen Kontext einbettet: den der europnischen Moderne, welche er ganz spezifisch in Ablehnung zu einer sich entwickelnden Welt-Moderne deutete. Es ist das Ziel der Untersuchung, diesen Deutungszusammenhang offenzulegen und zu einer kritischen Reflexion eigener Vorstellungen ber Europa, Moderne, europnische Moderne, Welt-Moderne, VAlkerrecht anzuregen.aInhaltsverzeichnisInhaltsbersicht: A. Einleitung - B. Die europnische Moderne: I. Staat und Jus Publicum Europaeum als grundlegende Raumordnung der europnischen Moderne: Die Entstehung und Bedeutung des modernen Staates: Die Raumrevolution des 16. Jahrhunderts und ihre Folgen - Die Entstehung und Entwicklung des VAlkerrechts der europnischen Moderne - Die Probleme am Ausgang des VAlkerrechts der europnischen Moderne - II. Politische Romantik: Die Entdeckung der Moderne: Ursprung und Wesen der Romantik - Die metaphysische Struktur der Romantik - Die Romantik als Ursprung einer neuen Welt - C. bergang zur Welt-Moderne: I. Bilanz: Die europnische Moderne und ihre AuflAsung zur Welt-Moderne: Die europnische Moderne: ein zusammenfassender berblick - Der bergang von der europnischen zur Welt-Moderne - D. Positionen und Begriffe gegen die Welt-Moderne: I. Der Begriff des Politischen: Der Hintergrund des Begriffs des Politischen - Die Infragestellung des Politischen und deren Konsequenzen - II. Die Welt als politisches Pluriversum: Die Menschheit - Kritik an der AuflAsung des Staates - Politischer Pluralismus versus Weltstaat - III. Die Verbannung des Ausnahmezustandes und das Prinzip der Legalitnt: Rationalismus und Ausnahmezustand - Welt-Moderne als Legalitnt - Die Bedeutung des Ausnahmezustandes fr das Politische - IV. Die Welt-Moderne als Welt der Werte: Die neue Rationalitnt der Welt-Moderne - Der Ursprung der Wertphilosophie - Die Tyrannei der Werte - E. Fazit - Literatur- und Sachwortverzeichnis"

Download or read book Volume 10 Tome I Kierkegaard s Influence on Theology written by Jon Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kierkegaard has always enjoyed a rich reception in the fields of theology and religious studies. This reception might seem obvious given that he is one of the most important Christian writers of the nineteenth century, but Kierkegaard was by no means a straightforward theologian in any traditional sense. He had no enduring interest in some of the main fields of theology such as church history or biblical studies, and he was strikingly silent on many key Christian dogmas. Moreover, he harbored a degree of animosity towards the university theologians and churchmen of his own day. Despite this, he has been a source of inspiration for numerous religious writers from different denominations and traditions. Tome I is dedicated to the reception of Kierkegaard among German Protestant theologians and religious thinkers. The writings of some of these figures turned out to be instrumental for Kierkegaard's breakthrough internationally shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. Leading figures of the movement of 'dialectical theology' such as Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Paul Tillich and Rudolf Bultmann spawned a steadily growing awareness of and interest in Kierkegaard's thought among generations of German theology students. Emanuel Hirsch was greatly influenced by Kierkegaard and proved instrumental in disseminating his thought by producing the first complete German edition of Kierkegaard's published works. Both Barth and Hirsch established unique ways of reading and appropriating Kierkegaard, which to a certain degree determined the direction and course of Kierkegaard studies right up to our own times.

Download or read book The Concept of Correlation written by John P. Clayton and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interpretationen einer gemeinsamen Welt Von der Antike bis zur Moderne Festschrift f r Jure Zovko written by Evandro Agazzi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die zweiundzwanzig Autorinnen und Autoren entfalten in ihren – dem kroatischen Philosophen Jure Zovko gewidmeten - Beiträgen zur Philosophie der Antike, des Deutschen Idealismus und des 20. Jahrhunderts, sowie zur Hermeneutik, zur Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie, zur Metaphysik und zur Religionsphilosophie die Philosophie als Interpretation einer gemeinsamen Welt. Dabei wird deutlich: die Philosophie bleibt auch in der Vielfalt ihrer Stimmen letztlich immer Eine, wie auch die Welt als Bezugspunkt menschlichen Handelns und Denkens nur eine ist, die wir miteinander teilen und die wir zu erkennen und zu erhalten haben. In their contributions - dedicated to the Croatian philosopher Jure Zovko - on the philosophy of antiquity, German Idealism and the 20th century, as well as on hermeneutics, the theory of knowledge and science, metaphysics and the philosophy of religion, the twenty-two authors unfold philosophy as the interpretation of a common world. In the process, it becomes clear that philosophy, even in the diversity of its voices, ultimately always remains one, just as the world as a point of reference for human action and thought is only one, which we share with each other and which we have to recognise and preserve.

Download or read book The Catholic Church and Liberal Democracy written by Bernt Oftestad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Catholic Church's critical stance towards liberalism and democracy following the French Revolution and through the 19th century was often entrenched, but the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s saw a shift in the Church's attitude towards democracy. In recent years, a conflict has emerged between Church doctrine and modern liberalism under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. This book is a comprehensive overview of the Catholic Church's relationship to modern liberal democracy, from the end of the 18th century until today. It is a connection that is situated within the context of the history of ideas itself.

Download or read book Genealogies of the Secular written by Willem Styfhals and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the concept of secularization is traditionally used to define the nature of modern culture, and sometimes to uncover the theological origins of secular modernity, its validity is being questioned ever more radically today. Genealogies of the Secular returns to the historical, intellectual, and philosophical roots of this concept in the twentieth-century German debates on religion and modernity, and presents a wide range of strategies that German thinkers have applied to apprehend the connection between religion and secularism. In fundamentally heterogeneous ways, these strategies all developed "genealogies of the secular" by tracing modern phenomena back to their religious or theological roots. This book aims to disclose the complex prehistory of the contemporary debates on political theology and postsecularism, and to show how prominent thinkers continue this German tradition today. It explores and assesses the classic theories of secularization that are epitomized in Carl Schmitt's writings on political theology, but also addresses German philosophers whose work has been rarely associated with secularization, including Walter Benjamin, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, and Hannah Arendt. Attention is also paid to two thinkers whose role in these discourses has not been fully explored yet: Jacob Taubes and Jan Assmann. By introducing their thinking on religion, politics, and secularization, the book also makes two of their own key texts available to an English-language readership.

Download or read book Politische Theologie der Modernen Welt written by Jürgen Moltmann and published by Gütersloher Verlagshaus. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoffnungstheologie gegen die Verzagtheit Propheten blicken nicht in die Zukunft voraus, sie sagen vielmehr an, was in einer bestimmten Zeit zu erinnern, zu fordern und zu tun ist. So geben Propheten Orientierung in der Gegenwart. In diesem Sinne ist die Theologie Jürgen Moltmanns immer auch eine prophetische Theologie gewesen. Eine Rede von Gott, die in der Gegenwart gründet und auf das Handeln für eine bessere Zukunft hin gerichtet ist, eine politische Theologie der Hoffnung. Dieses Buch führt wesentliche Beiträge des theologisch-politischen Denkens Moltmanns in einem Band zusammen. Nüchterne Bestandsaufnahmen von Wirklichkeit, die aus der Botschaft biblischer Verheißung Kraft gegen Verzagtheit gewinnen und Mut für Zukunft schöpfen.

Download or read book J rgen Moltmann written by James L. Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...true theologians are more than good religious managers, for their hearts must be in what they are doing. Without personal authenticity, no one will believe in the truth of their message."- Jürgen Moltmann, from his lecture What is a Theologian? at the Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland (1998). Jürgen Moltmann was born into a secular family of teachers in Hamburg in 1926. His plans to study mathematics and physics were interrupted by the destruction of Hamburg in July of 1943. He was one of only a few students serving in the anti-aircraft battery in the central city that survived the Royal Air Force "fire storm" that killed over 40,000. He spent the next three years as a prisoner of war in labor camps in Belgium and Scotland, and finally at Camp Norton near Nottingham in England. After devouring every book that crossed his path during captivity, he eventually turned to reading the psalms and New Testament. These writings soothed his experiences with death, his depression and his guilt, and ushered along his theology, his belief in God and the power of hope. Jürgen Moltmann's work sprung from the social and political turmoil in post World War II German culture. In this Bibliography, the author lists more than twelve hundred sources from Jürgen Moltmann and more than eight hundred significant reviews, articles, and books on his work. He has also included most of the theologian's early writings in either German or English through the year 2001. Besides a foreword and essay by Moltmann, this volume includes a bibliographic biography of his life. Most of his works are listed by title and first place of publication. Also listed are later versions and many of the translations. Translations of Moltmann's major books (in as many European languages as possible) as well as a list of known dissertations and monographs, presented in reverse chronological order for the reader's convenience, make for a well-rounded work. A research index helps the reader find the major pieces for some of Moltmann'

Download or read book Professor of Apocalypse written by Jerry Z. Muller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold War Berlin. Regarded by some as a genius, by others as a charlatan, Taubes moved among yeshivas, monasteries, and leading academic institutions on three continents. He wandered between Judaism and Christianity, left and right, piety and transgression. Along the way, he interacted with many of the leading minds of the age, from Leo Strauss and Gershom Scholem to Herbert Marcuse, Susan Sontag, and Carl Schmitt. Professor of Apocalypse is the definitive biography of this enigmatic figure and a vibrant mosaic of twentieth-century intellectual life. Jerry Muller shows how Taubes’s personal tensions mirrored broader conflicts between religious belief and scholarship, allegiance to Jewish origins and the urge to escape them, tradition and radicalism, and religion and politics. He traces Taubes’s emergence as a prominent interpreter of the Apostle Paul, influencing generations of scholars, and how his journey led him from crisis theology to the Frankfurt School, and from a radical Hasidic sect in Jerusalem to the center of academic debates over Gnosticism, secularization, and the revolutionary potential of apocalypticism. Professor of Apocalypse offers an unforgettable account of an electrifying world of ideas, focused on a charismatic personality who thrived on controversy and conflict.

Download or read book Religion and Biopolitics written by Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes. Further, it analyzes the ways in which religious traditions and actors formulate their bio-ethical positions and which rationales they use to validate their positions. The book offers a range of case studies on fourteen Western democracies, highlighting the bio-ethical and political debates over human stem cell research, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. The contributing authors illustrate the ways in which national political landscapes and actors from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral stances, premises and commitments formulate their bio-ethical positions and seek to influence political decisions.

Download or read book Die Welt des Islams written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prophets Viziers and Philosophers written by Emily J. Cottrell and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of essays assembled in this volume addresses the models of divine and practical wisdom in some of the earlier Arabic prose texts passed down to us. All essays were initially presented and discussed at an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin in October 2014. More than isolated case studies, the contributions offer ground-breaking new research on essential works and figures of the early translation movement (from Greek, Syriac and Middle-Persian into Arabic). They also address, from the viewpoints of intertextuality and philology, the dissemination process of innovative syntheses elaborated by original medieval thinkers.

Download or read book Hobbes Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Antike Mythen written by Ueli Dill and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge von namhaften europäischen und amerikanischenAltertumswissenschaftlern und Religionswissenschaftlern, die einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der zeitgenössischen Erforschung des Mythos, seiner Erscheinungsformen und seiner Transformationen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Epochen darbieten.