Economic Theology, Governance and Neoliberalism: Lessons of „The Kingdom and the Glory”.
Vol. 17 No. 3 (2015), ECONOMIC THEOLOGIES
Vol. 17 No. 3 (2015)

Economic Theology, Governance and Neoliberalism: Lessons of „The Kingdom and the Glory”.

ECONOMIC THEOLOGIES
https://doi.org/10.14746/prt.2015.3.6
Published 2015-04-21
German Eduardo Primera
School of Humanities University of Brighton 10-11 Pavilion Parade BN2 1RA – Brighton
United Kingdom
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economic theology
oikonomia
neoliberalism
governance
Giorgio Agamben

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Primera, G. E. (2015). Economic Theology, Governance and Neoliberalism: Lessons of „The Kingdom and the Glory”. Praktyka Teoretyczna, 17(3), 106–122. https://doi.org/10.14746/prt.2015.3.6
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The aim of this paper is to examine Agamben’s engagement with economic theology in order to underscore its relevance for the critique of contemporary neoliberal politics. In the first part, I offer a summary of the central arguments of The Kingdom and the Glory. In particular, I focus on both the treatment of the notion of oikonomia in the early Christian discussions on the divine trinity and its relation to the providential paradigm of government. I then show how this genealogy of oikonomia is useful for a political analysis of the present. In doing so, I respond to some of the criticisms leveled against Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory by Alberto Toscano. Finally, I will conclude by showing how Agamben’s work is of particular importance for the study of neoliberal political rationality.
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