The New Polis in collaboration with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (part of The Whitestone Foundation of publications) announces a webinar-based online conference in April 2021. The conference is entitled “Decoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire – Rethinking Sovereignty And…
Critical Conversations – “On Decoloniality” With Walter Mignolo (Announcement)
An earlier version of this posting had the date listed as “December,” which would imply the webinar had already occurred. It is still scheduled for January, 12 2021. When: Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 10 am Mountain Standard Time, 6 pm European…
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 4 (Daniel Reiser)
The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. Is what Martel presents his readers only a pragmatic approach which demonstrates the utilitarian value of religion? Is religion “false” but nevertheless…
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 3 (Daniel Reiser)
The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Beyond the question of metaphor and reality, the greatest difference between Pi’s two stories is in his attitudes towards the situation in which…
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 2 (Daniel Reiser)
The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Hasidism, which translated Kabbalah into psychological categories, was a target of Elyashiv’s criticism.[1] He likewise opposed Kabbalists active in Jerusalem, such as R. Abraham Isaac…
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 1 (Daniel Reiser)
The following is the first of a four-part series. Introduction* Yann Martel’s 2001 bestselling novel Life of Pi, later released in 2012 as a prize-winning box office hit, addresses themes such as religion, faith, imagination, and their relation to psychology…
Critical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the fifth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. If you are interested in joining us, please contact us by email at editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com. If you…
Antinomian Flesh, Part 3 (David Kline)
The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Antinomian Spirit as Christian Supremacy Both before nomos and therefore its condition of enactment, the flesh names the undercurrent of living resistance…
Critical Conversations – 2020 And The Catastrophe Of The Global Neoliberal Order (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the fourth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the globe. If you are interested in joining us, please contact us by email at editor.thenewpolis@gmail.com. If you…
Antinomian Flesh, Part 2 (David Kline)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The Nomos of Being Human: Body and Flesh The above descriptions of nomos encapsulate general sociological, political, economic, and legal structures of order, distribution, governance,…