Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty

Paul W. Kahn

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Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15341-6
$25.00 / £17.50

February, 2011
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15340-9
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Foreword, by Dick Howard

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Political Theology Again

1. Definition of Sovereignty

2. The Problem of Sovereignty as the Problem of the Legal Form and of the Decision

3. Political Theology

4. On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the State

Conclusion: Political Theology and the End of Discourse

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Political Philosophy
• Political Theory

Series

• Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

About the Author

Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and director of the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. He is the author of many books, including Putting Liberalism in Its Place; Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil and Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty.

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