Prof. Paul Kahn Yale Law School
1. Introduction
a. Kahn, Political Theology, Introduction b. Geertz, ACenters, Kings, and Charisma: Reflections on the Symbolics of Power,@ in Local Knowledge
2.  olitical Theology and Political Philosophy: A Contested Relationship
a. Kahn, Putting Liberalism in its Place, part 1. b. Lilla, Stillborn God, chapters 2-4
3.  olitical Theology and Philosophical Psychology: Beyond the Liberal Soul
a. Kahn, Putting Liberalism in its Place, chapter 4-5 b. Kahn, Out of Eden, chapter 1-2 c. Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, chapters 1, 2, 5, 6
4-5.  olitical theologies: Chapter l, Definition of the Sovereign*
a. Agamben, Homo Sacer, Introduction, Parts II & III b. Schmitt, Concept of the Political
6-7.  olitical theologies: Chapter 2, The Problem of Sovereignty as the Problem of the Legal Form and of the Decision
a. Cohen, ATranscendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach,@ 35 Colum. L. Rev. 809 (1935). b. Kelsen, Introduction to Pure Theory of Law 8-9.  olitical theologies, Chapter 3, Political Theology
a. Foucault, ANietzsche, Genealogy, and History@ b. Blumenberg, Legitimacy of the Modern Age, Part I, chap. 8
10-11.  .T. Chapter 4, On the Counterrevolutionary Philosophy of the State
a. Arendt, On Revolution, Introduction, chap. 1, 3-5
12. Sovereignty: Killing and Being Killed
a. Kahn, Sacred Violence, Part 1 b. Luban, ALiberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb,@ 91 Va. L. Rev. 1425 (20
13. Sacrifice and the Rule of Law
a. Kahn, Sacred Violence, Part II. b. Asad, AThinking about Agency and Pain,@ in Formations of the Secular
14. The State: Good and Evil
a. Kahn, Putting Liberalism in its Place, chapter 6 b. Kahn, Out of Eden, chapter 4-5.
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