Hayekian Neoliberalism as Negative Political Theology
In this paper, I will investigate the relationship between aspects of Whiteheadian process thought and political theology in Walter Lippmann and Friedrich von Hayek. While scholars have noted the differences between later actual existing neoliberalism and Lippmann’s text, important continuities rema...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Political theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 7, Pages: 623-633 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Whitehead, Alfred North 1861-1947
/ Neo-liberalism
/ Impossibility
/ Prognosis
/ Freedom
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Sovereignty
B Walter Lippmann B Economy B A. N. Whitehead B F. A. Hayek B Neoliberalism B Negative Theology |
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| Summary: | In this paper, I will investigate the relationship between aspects of Whiteheadian process thought and political theology in Walter Lippmann and Friedrich von Hayek. While scholars have noted the differences between later actual existing neoliberalism and Lippmann’s text, important continuities remain. One of these continuities is the way political boundaries police, and yet serve, economic relations. It will be argued that the unknowability of complex economic relations, thought with the help of Whitehead, gives way to a way of theoretically fencing politics and economy from one another. For Hayek, this boundary marking exercise serves to police the space of individual liberty, for it is the collectivist impulse to interfere with the unknowable and sublime object, the market, which leads to the chaos of German political life in the wartime period in which he writes. Hayek and Lippmann collapse the mystery of sovereignty into economy, and consequently legitimatise a legal architecture serving only to guard this mystery. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2020.1800197 |