Power and Secularization

This book offers a geneaological understanding of the condition of our time by reconstructing the complex story of the transition from the 'cyclical time' of the classic era to the 'linear and infuturant time' of the modern world.

Autorentext

Giacomo Marramao is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Roma Tre University, Italy. He is also a member of the Honor Committee of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, France, and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards. His research explores theoretical and political philosophy, with particular emphasis on questions of power, hegemony, modernity, and time. He is the author of numerous books, several of which have been translated into various languages, including The Passage West: Philosophy After the Age of the Nation State (2012), Against Power: For an Overhaul of Critical Theory (2016), The Bewitched World of Capital: Methods, Theory, Politics (2023), and Towards a New Concept of the Political: A Defence of Universalism and Difference (2024).

Inhalt

1. In lieu of an introduction: modernity of time

2 . Time and revolution

3. Politics and secularization: the problem of the modern Weltbild

4. Power, structure, time: the dimensions of rationality from Weber to Luhmann

5. The kairological timing of the decision: unfoundedness of Entscheidung and ghost of the state in Carl Schmitt

6. Time of the norm and time of the exception: for a metacritique of the systemic paradigm

7. Left and secularization: massification, instability, and sociocultural antagonism