This article attempts to settle the vexed question of how far Paley.
Having focused in Part 1 on Paley’s rhetoric, we now turn our attention to the philosophical part of the programme.
The first part of this two-part article suggested that William Paley’s Natural theology (1802) should be viewed as the culmination of a complex psychological strategy for inculcating religious and moral sentiments. To illustrate, the essay draws to the fore the ancient Near Eastern mythological filiations between Christ and antichrist it reads the antichrist as a detranscendentalized figure that ironically disrupts the masculinist authority of decisions made in the name of Christ and makes room for the singular encounter with the political other. The project of detranscendentalizing is an important first step toward the impossible ethical encounter with the other it thus charts a course for critiquing theopolitics and imagining new modes of political engagement, in ways that resist the usual conservative accusations of neutrality. Runions draws a connection between Spivak's insistence on detranscendentalizing radical alterity—which is a deconstructive literary approach to religious narratives—and Spivak's larger concern with. This essay uses the thought of Gayatri Spivak to reread one religious trope—the antichrist—commonly used in conservative political discourse to motivate a masculinist theopolitical decisionism.
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