Two by Roberto Esposito, Zakiya Hanafi - 9780823267620

TwoThe Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought\nAuthor(s): Roberto Esposito, Zakiya Hanafi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823267620, 978-0823267620\nSynopsis\nThe debate on \""political theology\"" that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its languagewe remain in its horizon.\n The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the pivot around which the machine of Western civilization has revolved for more than 2,000 years. At its heart stands the juncture between universalism and exclusion, unity and separation: the tendency of the Two to make itself into One by subordinating one part to the domination of the other. All the philosophical and political categ.