Political Theology Seminar

杨宁

Prof. Paul Kahn
Yale Law School

1. Introduction  

a.  Kahn, Political Theology, Introduction
b. Geertz, ACenters, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power,@ in
Local Knowledge


2.  olitical Theology and Political Philosophy: A Contested Relationship

a.  Kahn, Putting Liberalism in its Place, part 1.  
b. Lilla, Stillborn God, chapters 2-4


3.  olitical Theology and Philosophical Psychology: Beyond the Liberal Soul

a.  Kahn, Putting Liberalism in its Place, chapter 4-5
b. Kahn, Out of Eden, chapter 1-2  
c.  Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, chapters 1, 2, 5, 6


4-5.  olitical theologies:  Chapter l, Definition of the Sovereign*
  

a.  Agamben, Homo Sacer, Introduction, Parts II & III
b. Schmitt, Concept of the Political


6-7.  olitical theologies:  Chapter 2, The Problem of Sovereignty as the Problem of the
Legal Form and of the Decision

a. Cohen, ATranscendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach,@ 35 Colum. L. Rev.
809 (1935).
b. Kelsen, Introduction to Pure Theory of Law
    
8-9.  olitical theologies,  Chapter 3, Political Theology

a. Foucault, ANietzsche, Genealogy, and History@
   b. Blumenberg,  Legitimacy of the Modern Age, Part I, chap. 8

10-11.  .T. Chapter 4, On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the State

a. Arendt, On Revolution, Introduction, chap. 1, 3-5


12.  Sovereignty: Killing and Being Killed

a.  Kahn, Sacred Violence, Part 1
b. Luban, ALiberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb,@ 91 Va. L. Rev. 1425 (20


13.  Sacrifice and the Rule of Law

a.  Kahn, Sacred Violence, Part II.
b. Asad, AThinking about Agency and Pain,@ in Formations of the Secular


14.  The State: Good and Evil

a.  Kahn, Putting Liberalism in its Place, chapter 6
b. Kahn, Out of Eden, chapter 4-5.