Tid, politik, befrielse : En politisk-teologisk undersökning av tidens politiska implikationer hos Martin Hägglund och David Bentley Hart

• Main Author: Arvidsson Lille, Johan
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation 2021
• Subjects: Martin Hägglund; David Bentley Hart; Radical Atheism; Political Theology; Eschatology; Chronopolitics; Religious Studies; Religionsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53819

In this essay, I examine the correlation between time and politics in Martin Hägglunds philosophical project. By examining the view of time and politics in the works of the theologian David Bentley Hart, I establish a discussion that exposes different metaphysical standings and raises new questions. I conduct this examination in the light of the ongoing discussion about theology and political emancipation in the field of political theology. One of the main conclusions of the essay is that an important division appear between an ontological and a Christian eschatological concept about the relationship between time and eternity. I also conclude that the belief in a transcendental sphere that intervene in history can bring forth different types of political implications, which all tend to lean towards a concept about this world as a second to last. Throughout this essay, I deepen my discussion concerning the supposed emancipatory or totalizing political consequences of this cosmology, which, in this essay, is represented mainly by Hägglund and Hart.