Politics without theology?

the case of Georg Lukács

Roland Boer

pp. 243-254

in: Christine Magerski, Robert Savage, Christiane Weller (eds), Moderne begreifen, Wiesbaden, Deutscher Universitätsverlag, 2007

Abstract

For some time now a question has been sitting just on the horizon of my perpetually turning mind, casting a low glow like the midnight sun on the terrain of my writing. I refer to Alberto Moreiras's call for "the radical possibility of a de-theologized theory of the political". He writes of Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, especially their efforts to recover Christian love (Žižek 2000, 2001, 2003) and grace (Badiou) in a thoroughly secular register for a revamped political project on the Left. And for Moreiras both come up rather short, slipping into the logic of the children of light, one that perpetuates the exclusion and neglect of the non-subject of the political. However, I want to introduce another critic into the discussion, namely the admirably hard-nosed Georg Lukács.

Cited authors

Lukács György

Badiou Alain

Žižek Slavoj

Moreiras Alberto