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Author:   Professor or Dr. K. Daniel Cho (Otterbein University, USA) ,  Dr Boštjan Nedoh (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350500686

ISBN 10:   1350500682
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction, K. Daniel Cho and Boštjan Nedoh 2. Freud and the Political, K. Daniel Cho (Otterbein University, USA) 3. Political Theology of the As-If: Freud-Kelsen-Schmitt, 1922, Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University, UK) 4. The Politics of Facticity: Schelling and the Grounds of Authority, Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico, USA) 5. Law Contra Ideology, Todd McGowan (University of Vermont, Canada) 6. Touching the Iman’s Body: When Political Theology Meets Psychoanalysis, Arsalan Reinhanzadeh (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia) 7. Imaginary Objects: The Libidinal Politics of the Curse of Ham, Paul Eisenstein (Otterbein University, USA) 8. Religion of the Father? Judaism as a Politico-Theological Code of Parenticide, Agata Bielik-Robson (Polish Academy of Science, Poland/University of Nottingham, UK) 9. Universalism and the Jewish Exception: Lacan, Badiou, Rosenzweig, Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA, USA) 10. Inoperative Universality, Daae Jung (University of Vermont, USA) 11. Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself?!, Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia 12. Gaps of Rest: Toward a Political Economy of Laziness, Simon Hajdini (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 13. Beruf: Superego between political theology and political economy, Boštjan Nedoh (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, USA) 14. Schreber’s Theological Materialism, Tadej Troha, (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

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With Political Theology and Its Discontents, K. Daniel Cho and Boštjan Nedoh present a series of powerful challenges to Carl Schmitt’s still-influential notion of political theology. Schmitt sometimes is simply dismissed for his Nazism. At other times, leftist critical engagements with him tend merely to appropriate his conceptions of sovereignty and the friend-enemy distinction as useful for radical leftism too. What distinguishes Political Theology and Its Discontents is that it convincingly demonstrates how bringing Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to bear on Schmittian political theology utterly transforms the latter. The psychoanalytic reinterpretations of Schmitt’s ideas and texts offered by the essays in this volume reveal that neither politics nor theology can be limited to what Schmitt took them to be. Cho and Nedoh’s Political Theology and Its Discontents is a timely, invaluable, and highly original reconsideration of the contemporary interrelationships between politics and religion in Schmitt’s wake. Nobody concerned with our current geo-political circumstances can afford to ignore this path-breaking collection. * Adrian Johnston, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA *

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K. Daniel Cho is a professor of education at Otterbein University, USA. Boštjan Nedoh is a research fellow at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana.

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