2008
DOI: 10.1177/0263276408097801
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Paul against Biopolitics

Abstract: As others have argued, modern liberalism can be seen as dominated by the biopolitical. In both the economic and the political realms, this involves a contradictory notion of how the natural gives rise to the cultural and the cultural both suppresses and advances the natural. On either side of this divide, uncontrollable excesses arise, which ensure that this immanentist model is never immune from the return of the theopolitical in a bastardized form. Antique notions of natural justice to some degree escaped th… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
2
1

Citation Types

0
18
0

Year Published

2011
2011
2020
2020

Publication Types

Select...
7
1

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 18 publications
(18 citation statements)
references
References 13 publications
0
18
0
Order By: Relevance
“…In other words, following the model of Aquinas, appeal was made to a natural law of equity rooted in an eternal, divine law, and so provides an escape from biopolitics to some degree. 86 Milbank concludes that the only final way out of the biopolitical conundrum is through authentic Pauline theology, which allegedly provides the theological framework for Thomist natural law. 87 Milbank's framework for understanding reality, and consequently for interpreting Aquinas, is that accounts of human life, law and nature must be integrally theological, and this entails the rejection of any recognition of the secular or a ''pure nature.''…”
Section: The ''Divine'' Civil Lawmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…In other words, following the model of Aquinas, appeal was made to a natural law of equity rooted in an eternal, divine law, and so provides an escape from biopolitics to some degree. 86 Milbank concludes that the only final way out of the biopolitical conundrum is through authentic Pauline theology, which allegedly provides the theological framework for Thomist natural law. 87 Milbank's framework for understanding reality, and consequently for interpreting Aquinas, is that accounts of human life, law and nature must be integrally theological, and this entails the rejection of any recognition of the secular or a ''pure nature.''…”
Section: The ''Divine'' Civil Lawmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…86 Milbank concludes that the only final way out of the biopolitical conundrum is through authentic Pauline theology, which allegedly provides the theological framework for Thomist natural law. 87 Milbank's framework for understanding reality, and consequently for interpreting Aquinas, is that accounts of human life, law and nature must be integrally theological, and this entails the rejection of any recognition of the secular or a ''pure nature.'' The problem for Milbank's view is that according to him, authentic knowledge comes from faith alone, but this is by no means a judgment shared by Aquinas.…”
Section: The ''Divine'' Civil Lawmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This lack of concern for probable intended meaning is reflected in an essay published by Milbank online, entitled ‘Paul Against Biopolitics’ . Here, Milbank claims to be bringing Pauline theology to bear on the contemporary discussion of ‘biopolitics’.…”
Section: Milbank Reading the Biblementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In consequence, justice now lies before the law, not only in the sense of exceptional equity, but also as a hidden excess of ever‐renewable auto‐generating pneumatic life which gratuitously renews and distributes the good (1 Corinthians, 15:42–50). In the face of this indefectible abundance, law is not needed, because there is no death and no malicious will that deals in death.’It is hard to see how the two references to biblical texts here relate to what the texts themselves say . Milbank is not interested in following Paul's arguments as they appear in the structure of one particular letter, choosing rather to insert disconnected texts into the logic of his own argument .…”
Section: Milbank Reading the Biblementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Olsen mirrors this concern, underlying that 'rationality and justice [should be] characteristics of the [bureaucratic] procedures followed to reach an outcome and not the outcome itself' (p. 139). Michel Foucault, in his critique of Weber went much further: as recent, inspiring and challenging, theological debate has reminded us (Milbank, 2007), Foucault also recognised that the enlightenment, with its dual impulse to destroy God and create 'universal' material order, left us with an enduring and destructive dilemma. Seeking to find material universalism in the sovereignty of the constituted polity, we also needed to create an abstract executive sovereign with full administrative powers of implementation to give voice to our material sovereignty.…”
Section: Max Weber Redivivusmentioning
confidence: 99%