Neoliberalism and Political Theology
from kant to identity politics
$289.58
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
4 December 2019
Summary
Neoliberalism has become the operative buzzword among pundits and academics to characterise an increasingly dysfunctional global political economy. It is often wrongly identified exclusively with free market fundamentalism and illiberal types of cultural conservatism. Combining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood. He lays out how the present new world disorder, signalled by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474454551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474454550 |
| Author: | Carl Raschke |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
In this penetrating analysis of the political forces which underlie the clash of contemporary values, Raschke exposes the extent to which emancipatory discourse has been co-opted to serve the hegemony of global elites. At once provocative and contemporary, this is political theology at its most critical. * Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham *
About The Author
Carl Raschke
Carl Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Towards a Semiotics of the Event (University of Virginia Press, 2012), GloboChrist (Baker Academic, 2008), The Next Reformation (Baker Academic, 2004), The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University (Routledge, 2002), Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body (SUNY, 1995) and The Engendering God (Westminster, 1995) and Painted Black (HarperCollins, 1991).
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