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Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency (Reinventing Critical Theory)

Politics of Divination: Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency (Reinventing Critical Theory)

Joshua Ramey
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Publication Date: September 27th, 2016
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
9781783485529
Pages:
192

Description

Offers an interpretation of neoliberal ideology as a political theology of chance that both justifies and dissembles risk-laden market processes as obscure divination tools used both to determine fate and fortune and yet to deny that such determination is taking place by any accountable authority.

About the Author

Joshua Ramey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College. He is the author of The Hermetic Deleuze (2012), the co-translator of François Laruelle's Non-Philosophical Mysticism for Today (forthcoming), and the author of numerous articles on figures including Adorno, Zizek, Badiou, Deleuze, Bruno, Warhol, Hitchcock and Cronenburg. His work has appeared in Angelaki, Political Theology, Discourse, SubStance, and the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory.

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