Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology

by Alex Dubilet (Contributor), Joseph Albernaz (Contributor), Daniel C. Barber (Contributor)

Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.

Nothing Absolute reclaims German Idealism as a political-theological trajectory. Across the volume’s contributions, German thought from Kant to Marx emerges as crucial for the genealogy of political theology and for the ongoing reassessment of modernity and the secular. By investigating anew such concepts as immanence, utopia, sovereignty, theodicy, the Earth, and the world, as well as the concept of political theology itself, this volume not only rethinks German Idealism and its aftermath from a political-theological perspective but also demonstrates what can be done with (or against) German Idealism using the conceptual resources of political theology today.

Joseph Albernaz, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Agata Bielik-Robson, Kirill Chepurin, S. D. Chrostowska, Saitya Brata Das, Alex Dubilet, Vincent Lloyd, Thomas Lynch, James Martel, Steven Shakespeare, Oxana Timofeeva, Daniel Whistler

Genres: Philosophy

256 pages, Paperback

Published February 9, 2021

Reviews

[Neal Spadafora · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this collection to read Dubilet's essay on Marx (which is a stellar reading of the 'On the Jewish Question') and ended up reading the majority of the essays. I highly recommend this book for anyone reading in political theology.