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From: "Costica Bradatan" <[email protected]>
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Subject: CFP: THE POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF LIBERALISM: POWER, RESISTANCE,
ESCHATOLOGY
THE POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF LIBERALISM: POWER, RESISTANCE, ESCHATOLOGY
A Workshop: University of Lapland, Finland, October 12, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Professor Friedrich Kratochwil
Call for Papers
It is a truism, after Schmitt, to say that all modern political concepts
are secularized theological ones. Politically speaking we have yet to
emancipate ourselves from the tyranny of theological reason. Never less so
than in an era of neoliberalism in which we remain subjected to what
Schmitt called ‘liberal metaphysics’. How does this affect the ways in
which wetheorizethe nature of neoliberal regimes of power and political
resistance to them? This workshop responds to this question. Our gambit
is, however, that securing the human from its ongoing subjection to
liberal reason and from the eschatological traditions of thinking
bequeathed us by religions of various forms and natures can be achieved
only by utilizing religion.Thus the struggle requires us to free ourselves
from the simplistically anti-religious reflexes that have often informed
discourses of critique and resistance. An important starting point in the
process of losing such reflexes is the recognition that there is no such
thing as religion in the singular. Just as there is no such thing as
Christianity, Islam or Judaism in the singular. The problem today is not
simply one of continued shaping of political ideas and practices by
religion, but the specificity of the particular forms of religiosity that
continue to provide liberalism with its legitimacy. Precisely for this
reason, when we examine the works of the most acute critics of liberal
modernity,we find that their own thinking concerning how to combat it is
shaped by a refusal of any simplistically anti-religious reflex. At the
beginning of his essay, “Faith and Knowledge”, Jacques Derrida asked
whether “a discourse on religion can be dissociated from a discourse on
salvation?” Likewise we might ask what would a politics of resistance to
liberalism be todaywithout a discourse on security? Securing the human
from its modern subjection to liberalism’s eschatology is a task that may
only be achieved by a wielding of tools lentus by various religious
traditions. This is, at least, the starting point of this workshop.
Resistance to eschatology may require a counter-eschatology. And thus the
struggle for all that is worth saving requires a subject not only able to
free itself from simplistically anti-religious reflexes but which learns
how to differentiate between the form of religiosity it chooses to
struggle against and those which it requires in order to do so.
We invite papers that respond to this problematique and related themes.
Please send your abstract of 200-300 words to the workshop organizers.
Deadline for proposals: 31 July 2012.
Workshop Committee:
Professor Julian Reid: [email protected]
Dr Mika Luoma-aho:[email protected]
DrHannesPeltonen: [email protected]
Péter Losonczi, Ph.D
Research Associate, Centre for Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture
Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven
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Costica Bradatan, PhD
Associate Professor
Texas Tech University
The Honors College
PO Box 41017
Lubbock, TX 79409
http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata
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