Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public

by Catherine Keller and Catherine Keller

Book Overview

Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. Carl Schmitt's political theology of the sovereign exception sheds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231189915
• ISBN13: 9780231189910
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"