the new protestant ethic
100 jahre nach max webers protestantischer ethik diagnostiziert arthur kroker von ctheory.net die neue protestantische ethik
Understood metaphysically, it may well be that the insurgency represented by faith-based politics is the representative political form of what Heidegger’s Nietzsche described as the age of “completed nihilism.” In this interpretation, power in its mature (nihilistic) phase—sick of itself, possessing no definitive goal, exhausted with the historical burden of remaining an active will, always sliding inexorably towards the nothingness of the will-less will—desperately seeks out a sustaining purpose, an inspiring goal, a historical mission. Into the ethical vacuum at the disappearing center of nihilistic power flows a strong historical monism—the New Protestant Ethic—that will not be suppressed. To power’s empty formalism, to liberal humanism’s (emotionally) ineffective proceduralist ethics, to the empire’s cybernetic equations written in violence and in blood across the landscape of imperial wars, the New Protestant Ethic provides a singular historical purpose—the crusading spirit of evangelical Christianity which is reconstructionist, resurgent, and reanimated—backed up by the semiotic purity of the foundational texts of the Old Testament. To those who would discount faith-based politics as only the most recent instance of the politics of cultural backlash, it should be noted that this fateful, and entirely original, entwinement of (fundamentalist) religion and (imperial) war technologies in the American mind may well be in the order of a great overturning. With faith-based politics, we are witness to something entirely unexpected, and for that reason, deeply ominous—an ethical reconciliation between religion and technology in which the apocalyptic visions of the Old Testament will be future-coded in the power languages of empire politics and networked capitalism. What is now only in its preparatory rhetorical stages as the “culture of life” movement may soon emerge full-blown as the essential life-principle of American, and by imperialist extension, world culture.
nebenbei: bei der us-version von yahoo-news (auch in der neuen beta-version) ist der christian science monitor eine der zentralen nachrichtenquellen – in meinem verständnis ist ja christian science ein oxymoron und ist thomas v. aquins philosophia ancilla theologiae abgehakt.
(wohlgemerkt: yahoo-news ist die meistgenutzte news-seite weltweit)
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