Legal Theology |
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Author:
| Fitzpatrick, Peter |
ISBN: | 978-0-415-56015-3 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2018 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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Imprint: | Routledge Cavendish |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $52.95 |
Book Description:
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Strange Gods provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different from its religious antecedents, and that modernity involved a repudiation of theological concepts. Peter Fitzpatrick charts the lineage of this secular theology through three ¿historicities¿: the creation of the world¿s imperium, of the modern world-system, in the sixteenth century; the time of revolutions of the...
More DescriptionStrange Gods provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different from its religious antecedents, and that modernity involved a repudiation of theological concepts. Peter Fitzpatrick charts the lineage of this secular theology through three ¿historicities¿: the creation of the world¿s imperium, of the modern world-system, in the sixteenth century; the time of revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and the high modernism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Respectively condensed here in the writings of Vitoria, Hobbes and Nietzsche, Fitzpatrick documents the substitution of a monotheistic God by successive articulations of a persistently 'deific' law. Strange Gods thus questions the story of secularism¿s triumph, by eliciting the essentially religious force of modern law: a force that is, moreover, recognisable in secularism's contemporary imperial mission.