Illusions of a Future: Ishiguro, Liberalism, Political Theology
This article explores the fate of political theology in Kazuo Ishiguro's speculative fiction Never Let Me Go (2005) and, by implication, in contemporary fiction more broadly. To pursue a reading of Christianity that extends from Hegel through Lacan to iek, the article argues that political th...
| Published in: | Political theology |
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| Subtitles: | Roundtable discussion: Political theology of literature |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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| In: |
Political theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ishiguro, Kazuo 1954-, Never let me go
/ Žižek, Slavoj 1949-
/ Political theology
/ Illusion
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Ishiguro
B iek B Agamben B Benjamin |
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| Summary: | This article explores the fate of political theology in Kazuo Ishiguro's speculative fiction Never Let Me Go (2005) and, by implication, in contemporary fiction more broadly. To pursue a reading of Christianity that extends from Hegel through Lacan to iek, the article argues that political theology's future may perversely lie in a materialism emptied of all transcendental guarantees: political theology is the historically privileged master fantasy or illusion which reveals the fantastic or illusory status of our entire relation to the real in (neo-)liberal modernity. In conclusion, the article argues that Ishiguro's fiction may thus be read less as a melancholic dystopian study in total ideological capture or surrender than as the representation of a state of immanent freedom beyond the power relations of (neo-)liberal subjectivity. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1513189 |