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Beyond Secular Order
The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People
“Exploratory, daring, irritating and illuminating by turns, John Milbank cannot be compared with anything else in the intellectual life of our times ... It will become the cardinal text for interpreting him and arguing with him.” “New and exciting avenues of exploration open again and again in this richly suggestive work.” “In a careful and thorough canvassing of both ontological and political consequences, John Milbank displays the peculiar density which participation bestows on reality, by contrast with the binary oppositions latent in many current alternatives. By tracing everything to a free creator, Milbank confirms George Steiner’s prescient thesis in Real Presences, as well as offers extensive confirmation of his own probing inquiries since Thelogy and Social Theory. Daunting in its scope yet utterly focused in what it delivers.”
—Oliver O’Donovan, University of Edinburgh
—Charles Taylor, McGill University
—David Burrell, University of Notre Dame
John Milbank (Author)
9781118825297, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 31 January 2014
304 pages
22.6 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.408 kg
“Readers familiar with Milbank’s work will appreciate his focused prose while extensive footnotes referencing his previous work provide background information for others.” (Religious Studies Review, 7 December 2015) “...Interesting, creative, suggestive, and beguiling… [Milbank] is fearless in his cross-examination of modern secularist assumptions about the autonomy of philosophy and its much-heralded liberation from theology’s apron strings.” (Church Times, 24 August 2015)
"Here, in Beyond Secular Order, he offers a more concise systematic analysis focusing on the ontological and political dimensions of modernity. He lays bare the deep connections between metaphysical assumptions, on the one hand, and political and social implications, on the other." (SOPHIA 2015)
Beyond Secular Order is the first of a two-volume work that expands upon renowned theologian John Milbank’s innovative attempt to understand both theology and modern thought begun in his previously published classic text Theology and Social Theory.
Acknowledgements ix Preface: The Hidden Dimension of Humanity 1 Sequence on Modern Ontology 19 1 From Theology to Philosophy 19 2 The Four Pillars of Modern Philosophy 28 3 Modern Philosophy: A Theological Critique 49 4 Analogy versus Univocity 50 5 Identity versus Representation 57 6 Intentionality and Embodiment 66 7 Intentionality and Self hood 72 8 Reason and the Incarnation of the Logos 77 9 The Passivity of Modern Reason 81 10 The Baroque Simulation of Cosmic Order 86 11 Deconstructed Representation and Beyond 88 12 Passivity and Concursus 99 13 Representation in Philosophy 106 14 Actualism versus Possibilism 108 15 Influence versus Concurrence 112 16 Transition 113 Sequence on Political Ontology 114 1 Cosmos, Law and Morality 114 2 Metaphysics and Modern Politics 128 3 The Fate of the Rational Animal 137 4 The Irony of Representation 142 5 On Legal Concurrence 152 6 The Fate of the Social Animal 154 7 Representation and Mixed Government 170 8 Bureaucracy and the Formal Distinction 176 9 Form, Matter and Contract 177 10 The Antiquity of Historicism 184 11 The Sovereignty of the Artist 189 12 Eucharistic Creativity and Political Power 195 13 The Conundrum of Kingship 198 14 The Truth of Political Fiction 206 15 The Two Rival Constructions 208 16 Creativity and Mixed Government 211 17 Christological Constitutionalism 214 18 The Fate of the Fabricating Animal 218 19 The Fate of the Beast-Angel 220 20 The Death of Charity 225 21 Augustine’s Three Cities 228 22 Church as Cosmopolis 236 23 Aquinas and Kingship 240 24 The Theology of Ruling 247 25 The Ecumenico-Political Problem 254 26 Supernatural Charity and Global Order 257 27 Socialism Beyond the Left 261 28 Critique of All Materialisms 264 Index 271
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
