@inbook{8816ee0684f747669f9608e4db4b1898,
title = "A Secular Response to Political Messianism",
abstract = "French thought{\textquoteright}s concerns over the last 40 years with totality, telos and closure led it from the first to be concerned with the marking of excess within determination. Whether the specific determination has been individual or collective (the liberal subject, the nation-state, colonialism, and so on), ontological or ethical/political (the architectonic of reason, human rights, or capitalist formation) – the Levinasian other, the Derridean trace, the Lyotardian {\textquoteleft}sublime{\textquoteright}, the Nancian {\textquoteleft}partage{\textquoteright}, even the Deleuzian {\textquoteleft}nomadic{\textquoteright} open up each determination to others and to radical alterity as such. This marking of excess is predicated on the thinking of modern phenomenology, particularly Husserl and Heidegger{\textquoteright}s temporalization of reason and form. During the 1970s and 1980s, however, it increasingly looked to both the aesthetic and the religious instance to theorize the non-conceptual, the non-programmable and the unconditioned. Given our topic, I concentrate here on the turn to the religious instance.",
author = "Richard Beardsworth",
year = "2014",
month = apr,
day = "30",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-8470-6315-1",
series = "Continuum Studies in Religion and Political Culture",
publisher = "Bloomsbury",
pages = "15--25",
editor = "Arthur Bradley and {Paul Fletcher}",
booktitle = "Politics to Come",
address = "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland",
}