Apocalyptic Political Theology by Lynch, Thomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover HalfTitle Page Dedication Series Page Title Page Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Notes on Translation Introduction 1 Philosophy, political theology and the end of the world

What is political theology? What is this world that ends?

Schmitt: From earth to world by way of law Nature and capital Gender Race The ontology of the world

Conflicts and antagonisms Imagining the end Questioning the apocalypse

2 Implicit political theology: Reading Hegel’s philosophy of religion

Joachim, Hegel and the end of the world Representational thought: An outline of Hegel’s philosophy of religion Hegel’s implicit political theology Philosophy and the return to representation Conclusion

3 Spiritual disinvestment: Taubes, Hegel and apocalypticism

An introduction to Taubes Taubes and Hegel Apocalypticism and the question of history Taubes and Bloch Anti-liberal tendencies in Hegel, Taubes and Schmitt Transcendental materialist readings of Hegel: From Taubes to Malabou

4 Plastic apocalypticism

Malabou, Hegel and plasticity Plastic apocalypticism: Taubes and Malabou The problem of novelty and the rejection of the transcendent

Taubes and immanence Immanence and apocalypticism: Against messianism

A Blochian supplement Contingency and plastic apocalypticism

The necessity of contingency Contingency all the way down?

Conclusion

5 Pessimism and hope in apocalyptic living

Living with the absence of alternatives Pessimism and surrender Living towards the end of the world The end

Notes Bibliography Index Copyright Page