Keywords
economic theology
oikonomia
theology
secularization
Karl Marx
Marxism
biopolitics
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Abstract
This is an introduction to the issue of “Theoretical Practice” (“Praktyka Teoretyczna”), entitled “Economic Theologies” (no. 3, 2015), edited by Mikołaj Ratajczak and Rafał Zawisza. It contains contextual explanation of the theoretical field projected by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, namely a critique of the economic theology elaborated on the basis of early Christian theological debates concerning the concept of divine “oikonomia”. The introduction also includes short summaries of the articles, translations and reviews collected in the issue.References
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Agamben, Giorgio. 2005. “Introduzione.” In Coccia, Emanuele. La transparenza delle imagini: Averroè e l’averroismo. Milano: Mondaroni Bruno.
Agamben, Giorgio. 2006. Language and Death: The Place of Negativity. Trans. Michael Hardt, Karen Pinkus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Agamben, Giorgio. 2010. Nudities. Trans. David Kishik, Stefan Pedatella. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Agamben, Giorgio. 2011. The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government. Trans. Lorenzo Chiesa, Matteo Mandarini. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Agamben, Giorgio. 2013. Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life. Trans. Adam Kotsko. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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Chiesa, Lorenzo, and Frank Ruda. 2011. “The Event of Language as Form of Life: Agamben’s Linguistic Vitalism.” Angelaki 16(3): 163–180.
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Pappin, Gladden J. 2014. “Explaining Agamben: Review of The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government, The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life, and The Church and the Kingdom.” First Things 239: 57–59.
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Schmidt, Christoph. 2014. “The Return of the Katechon: Giorgio Agamben contra Erik Peterson.” Journal of Religion 94(2): 182–203.
Stimilli, Elettra. 2011. Il debito del vivente: Asceci e capitalismo. Macerata: Quodlibet.
Stimilli, Elettra. 2015. Debito e colpa. Padova: Ediesse.
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