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This Introduction argues for the importance of theology for the study of organization. It also draws the contours of a possible 'theology of organization'. Theology of organization, as we use it here, does not refer to a study of organization that is rooted in faith, nor does it refer to a study of religious practices in organizations. Instead, theology of organization recognizes that the way we think about and act in organizations is profoundly structured by theological concepts. In this editorial to the special issue we have three aims: to outline what theology of organization is, to show how it builds upon Carl Schmitt's 'political theology' and Giorgio Agamben's 'economic theology' and finally to propose three different forms that theology of organization can take. These forms of theology of organization respectively (1) analyse organizational concepts as secularized theological concepts, (2) show how theological concepts have survived unaltered in organizational contexts and (3) show how theological concepts have been corrupted or lost their original meaning when deployed in organizational contexts. In the final section of this editorial, we introduce the five contributions to this issue and indicate how they connect to the three forms of theology of organization that we have proposed.

Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and culture. In this, Rousseau is our true contemporary.

Angesichts aktueller Probleme wie Reform des Arbeitsmarktes, Umbau der Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft und Privatisierung öffentlicher Einrichtungen gibt der Staat erhebliche Teile seiner Verantwortung an soziale Akteure und Organisationen, den Dritten Sektor, sowie an Verbände und Unternehmen ab. Die Autoren des Bandes (u. a. Wolfgang Kersting, Hermann Lübbe, Renate Mayntz, Julian Nida-Rümelin, Gunnar Folke Schuppert und Robert Spaemann) untersuchen, welche Auswirkungen der Rückzug des Staates aus der Erfüllungsverantwortung auf seine Steuerungsfähigkeit hat.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- part 1 Revolution and Theological Difference -- Tragedy and Revolution -- Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution -- The ''Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy'' -- Nothing Is, Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One -- Revelation and Revolution -- part 2 Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom -- Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology -- Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics -- Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money -- Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment -- part 3 Infinite Desire and the Political Subject -- The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence -- Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject -- Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual -- The Univocalist Mode of Production -- part 4 Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology -- The Commodification of Religion, or The Consummation of Capitalism -- The UnbearableWithness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anti-ontotheology -- ''To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough'': Violence and the Incorporeal -- The Two Sources of the ''Theological Machine'': Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror -- part 5 Theological Materialism -- Materialism and Transcendence -- Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes -- The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index