Strange Gods

Strange Gods provides a genealogy of modern law as a secular theology, calling into question the received ideas that modern law is radically different from its religious antecedents, and that modernity involved a repudiation of theological concepts. Peter Fitzpatrick charts the lineage of this secular theology through three historicities: the creation of the world s imperium, of the modern world-system, in the sixteenth century; the time of revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and the high modernism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Respectively condensed here in the writings of Vitoria, Hobbes and Nietzsche, Fitzpatrick documents the substitution of a monotheistic God by successive articulations of a persistently 'deific' law. Strange Gods thus questions the story of secularism s triumph, by eliciting the essentially religious force of modern law: a force that is, moreover, recognisable in secularism's contemporary imperial mission."

Strange Gods ofera o genealogie a dreptului modern ca teologie laica, punand sub semnul intrebarii ideile primite ca legea moderna este radical diferita de antecedentele sale religioase si ca modernitatea presupunea o respingere a conceptelor teologice. Peter Fitzpatrick prezinta descendenta acestei teologii seculare prin trei istoricitati: crearea imperiului lumii, a sistemului mondial modern, in secolul al XVI-lea; timpul revolutiilor din secolele XVII si XVIII; si inaltul modernism din secolele XIX si XX.