Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

by Paul W. Kahn

Book Overview

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign.

Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231153414
• ISBN13: 9780231153416
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher