Agamben Giorgio. The Kingdom and the Glory

Lorenzo Cheisa (tr.) — Stanford University Press, 2011. — 328 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8047-6015-7.Thunder and lighting. Enter [two] witches: Carl Schmitt and a (now obscure) German catholic theologian, Erik Peterson, who in 1935 wrote a book aimed at demonstrating that catholic jurist Schmitt's idea of political theology had no grounding whatsoever in christian theology, because christian theology had always been exclusively concerned with the 'economy', i.e. the divine remote management of history, and by no means with politics. Taking this controversy as his point of departure, Agamben dashes to check at great length all the theological sources from the East and the West of the Roman Empire (Tertullian to Origen through to Eusebius and Thomas Aquinas), looks up all the terminology in lexicons, and eventually confirms that Peterson was right and Schmitt wrong.Translator's NoteThe Two Paradigms
Threshold
The Mystery of the Economy
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Being and Acting
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The Kingdom and the Government
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The Providential Machine
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Angelology and Bureaucracy
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The Power and the Glory
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The Archaeology of Glory
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Appendix: The Economy of the Moderns
The Law and the Miracle
The Invisible Hand