Książka Babylon Complex Erin Runions

Babylon Complex

Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty

Autor: Erin Runions
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Ba...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2014
strony
312
EAN
9780823257331
ISBN
0823257339
Enbook ID
04941444
Waga
548
Wymiary
236 x 162 x 20

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Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon are wide-ranging, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative ruminations on democratic law, liberal appeals to unity, tea party warnings about equality, and religious advocacy for family values. A composite biblical figure, Babylon is used to celebrate diversity and also to condemn it, to sell sexuality and to regulate it, to galvanize war and to worry about imperialism. Erin Runions explores the significance of these shifts and contradictions, arguing that together they reveal a theopolitics that tries to balance the drive for U.S. dominance with the countervailing idealizations and subjectivities of economic globalization. Examining the confluence of cultural formations, biblical interpretations, and (bio)political philosophies, The Babylon Complex shows how theopolitical arguments for war, sexual regulation, and political control both assuage and contribute to anxieties about waning national sovereignty. Along the way, Runions interrogates the interpretive moves by which the Bible gains its political authority and proposes instead other modes of reading that take Babylon as a figure for a detranscendentalized, queer, sublime, radically democratic polity. Theoretically sophisticated and engaging, this remarkable book complicates our understanding of how the Bible affects U.S. political ideals and subjectivities.

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