Survival : A Theological-Political Genealogy.

In Survival, Adam Stern asks what texts and traditions have made survival a recognizable element of our current political vocabulary. Examining works by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Sigmund Freud, Stern shows that survival belongs to a history of debates about the sovereignt...

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Main Author: Stern, Adam Y.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Series:Intellectual History of the Modern Age Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • SURVIVAL
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Beginnings
  • 1. The Elements of Survivalism
  • 2. The Archaeology of Survival
  • 3. The Imitation of Christ
  • 4. The Sovereign in the Age of Its Eucharistic Reproducibility
  • 5. The Empty Tomb
  • Epilogue. Other Thoughts
  • Notes
  • Index