Political eschatology attempts to examine the concept of “religious secularism” that Sean McGrath elaborates in his recent book Political Eschatology. Taking up the idea of “philosophical religion” that F.W.J. von Schelling prophetically anticipates, Sean McGrath transforms it into a thought of political eschatology. The idea of “political theology” not only serves here as a cipher for the form of the world as it exists, the world in the darkness of its lived presence, but also as an index of possibilities of forms of the world that we can’t predicate and predict on the basis of what already exists in the world. The Enigma of a Nil reviews A/Nil’s collection of poems entitled The Absent Color. Differentiating between different senses of the word “nil”—that is: nothing, negation etc.—the review makes manifest the revolutionary potentiality of a nothing that is not dialectical negation, the thought of a nothing that is at heart of political theology as infinite contestations of sovereignty and opening up of love from the heart of existence. The book takes seriously Paul’s conception of kenosis, and eschatologically conceives political theology as deconstruction of the form of the world as it exists, as the destruction of sovereign powers. Kenosis and the question of Political Theology aims to intervene in contemporary debates on “post-secularism” and “return to religion”. This work renews the task of political theology of an exception that weakens sovereignties and destitutes worldly hegemonies. This demands reintroducing the notion of transcendence and yet radicalizing it. At stake here is none other than delegitimation, not only of political sovereign power on a theological foundation but of the very place of “the human” as the sovereign being on the stage of world-historical politics. What is decisively new in this work is its attempt to understand the ecological problematic in light of political theology, and to think through the idea of kenosis in its own light.

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Appendix: Two Reviews

  • Saitya Brata Das

摘要

Political eschatology attempts to examine the concept of “religious secularism” that Sean McGrath elaborates in his recent book Political Eschatology. Taking up the idea of “philosophical religion” that F.W.J. von Schelling prophetically anticipates, Sean McGrath transforms it into a thought of political eschatology. The idea of “political theology” not only serves here as a cipher for the form of the world as it exists, the world in the darkness of its lived presence, but also as an index of possibilities of forms of the world that we can’t predicate and predict on the basis of what already exists in the world. The Enigma of a Nil reviews A/Nil’s collection of poems entitled The Absent Color. Differentiating between different senses of the word “nil”—that is: nothing, negation etc.—the review makes manifest the revolutionary potentiality of a nothing that is not dialectical negation, the thought of a nothing that is at heart of political theology as infinite contestations of sovereignty and opening up of love from the heart of existence. The book takes seriously Paul’s conception of kenosis, and eschatologically conceives political theology as deconstruction of the form of the world as it exists, as the destruction of sovereign powers. Kenosis and the question of Political Theology aims to intervene in contemporary debates on “post-secularism” and “return to religion”. This work renews the task of political theology of an exception that weakens sovereignties and destitutes worldly hegemonies. This demands reintroducing the notion of transcendence and yet radicalizing it. At stake here is none other than delegitimation, not only of political sovereign power on a theological foundation but of the very place of “the human” as the sovereign being on the stage of world-historical politics. What is decisively new in this work is its attempt to understand the ecological problematic in light of political theology, and to think through the idea of kenosis in its own light.