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100	1		_aLesch, Charles H.T. _eauthor
245	1	0	_aSolidarity in a Secular Age _bFrom Political Theology to Jewish Philosophy _helectronic _cCharles H.T. Lesch
250			_aFirst Edition
264		1	_aNew York, NY _bOxford University Press _c2022
300			_a279 p _bAll black and white images
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aOxford scholarship online
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aContents: Acknowledgments - Introduction: Solidarity, Liberalism, and Schmitt's Challenge - Part 1:Solidarity through Secularization - 1. When Metaphor Becomes Myth: Rousseau, the General Will, and Democratic Solidarity - 2. The Kernel of Unreason at the Heart of Enlightenment: Kant, Spontaneity, and Ethical Solidarity - 3. The Ethics of the Aura: Habermas, the Linguistification of the Sacred, and Discursive Solidarity - Part 2:Solidarity through Imitation - 4. The "Other" and the "I": Levinas, Negative Theology, and Solidarity as Sacrifice - 5. The "Essential We": Buber, Theopolitics, and Solidarity as Fate and Destiny - 6. Solidarity in a Secular Age: The Case of Daniel Deronda - Abbreviations - Notes - Index
520	3		_aLiberal democracies need solidarity. They need citizens who sacrifice for their country, rally for justice, and help their neighbors. Yet according to critics of liberalism like Carl Schmitt, the solidarity liberal democracies need comes from sources they cannot themselves produce, like religion. Thus in a time of declining religiosity and rising nationalism, how can we form strong social bonds without racism, demagoguery, and xenophobia? Can we have not only solidarity, but liberal solidarity, in a secular age? Solidarity in a Secular Age responds to Schmitt's challenge by proposing a new liberal-democratic solidarity rooted in personal sacrifice, shared fate, and moral destiny. Narrating an untold story of European political theology and spotlighting a neglected strand of Jewish philosophy, the book diagnoses solidarity's pathologies, reinterprets canonical theorists, and forges a new theoretical path. Part 1 uncovers religion's underlying role in European thinking about solidarity since the Enlightenment through readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and Jürgen Habermas. Each thinker rejects Schmitt's argument. Yet the way they do that, the book shows, is by secularizing different concepts from religion. Their political theologies leave behind not-fully-secularized religious remainders: Rousseau's "general will," Kant's concept of "spontaneity," and Habermas' "linguistification of the sacred." Part 2 reimagines liberal-democratic solidarity by looking to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Buber, and George Eliot. Rather than secularizing theological ideas, they propose imitating elements of religion in our everyday solidarity with others. They give us resources for responding to Schmitt's challenge, and show how Jewish ideas can contribute to rethinking our social bond for the twenty-first century.
650	0	0	_aSolidarity
650	0	0	_xPolitical aspects
776	0	8	_iPrint Version _z9780197583791
830		0	_aOxford Academic
856	4	0	_3Oxford Academic _uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197583791.001.0001
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