Thoughtfulness and Hospitality: On Refusing Antagonistic Politics at the End of History
The paper is constructed around the issues involved for the critical interrogation of the instrumental rationality generating political thoughtlessness in the following claim: “Humanity is in crisis—and there is no exit from that crisis other than solidarity of humans”. [Zygmunt Bauman] To even inte...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2020]
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Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 3 |
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Nicholas Lash
B Francis Fukuyama B the neighbour B Hannah Arendt B the political B thought and thoughtlessness B Refugees B Neoliberalism B Samuel Huntington B Critical Theory B friend / enemy B Henry Giroux B Immanuel Kant B disposable persons |
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| Summary: | The paper is constructed around the issues involved for the critical interrogation of the instrumental rationality generating political thoughtlessness in the following claim: “Humanity is in crisis—and there is no exit from that crisis other than solidarity of humans”. [Zygmunt Bauman] To even interrogate this as a crisis requires a depth-analysis of the hegemony of subject-formation, and this occurs in two markedly different ways. The first takes shape around a critical investigation of the neoliberalisation of subjectivity through Francis Fukuyama’s important text, The End of History and the Last Man. The second subjects the neoliberal post-political global subject to a competing antagonistic political construal in Samuel Huntington’s influential The Clash of Civilizations. The implication is of their importance to a genealogy of the range of contemporary political possibilities. The suggested repair takes the form of a particular gesture: a gesture towards subjecting the globally fractured subject takes shape within a theological configuration in terms of a Christic politics of neighbourliness. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel11040164 |