Carl A. Raschke
University of Denver
is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Denver and Senior Editor for the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. He is the author of over 25 books and hundreds of articles in international publications. His most recent book is Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics.
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Saying “You”: the Grammar of Address and the Limitations of Cognitive Theories of Religion
In Praise of Mortality: Christianity as a New Humanism
This edition of JCRT is a full translation from the German of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: Verlag Herder, 2015) Kurt Appel, Editor; Jakob Deibl; Isabella Guanzini; Alex Skinner; Natalie Eder; Carl A. Raschke; Rachel Thomas (Translators)
What Gives? Force, Gift, and the Ongoing
The article discusses the efforts of German philosopher Edmund Husserl to find the roots of philosophy, which he located in the transcendental method, in his book
From Alchemy to Revolution: a Conversation with Carl A. Raschke.
An interview of University of Denver's professor Carl A. Raschke that includes depiction of postmodern approaches in deconstruction literature; collaboration of diferent literary discourses in the
Peter Sloterdijk as “First Philosopher” of Globalization
The article offers information on philosopher Peter Sloterdijk that includes absence in translations of Sloterdijk's philosophical teachings; consideration of Sloterdijk's teaching as pop-cultural; and assessment of phenomenology towards globalization conditions.
The Weakness of God...and of Theological Thought for That Matter: Acta Est Fabula Plaudite
What Egypt Really Means for the Theory of Religion
Carl A. Raschke interprets Egypt's 2011 uprising through May 1968, youth politics, Derrida, and a universalist religion without renewed religiosity in public.
Obama’s Cairo Speech: “New Beginning,” New Enlightenment, or Old Aporia?
Carl A. Raschke analyzes Obama's Cairo speech as a bid for renewed relations between Islam and the West, testing its promise against Enlightenment aporias.
Specter and Event
Carl A. Raschke reflects on 2009 as a year of spectral eventfulness, reading Derrida and Nietzsche against political repetition, nihilism, and false dawns.
“Post-America”: An Exchange
David Hale and Carl A. Raschke exchange views on American decline, debt, empire, irony, and the uncertain line between the audacity and arrogance of hope.
Dis-Enclosure and the Inaugural Moment
Carl A. Raschke reads Obama's inauguration beside Jean-Luc Nancy's Dis-Enclosure, asking how event, faith, Christianity, and the future resist philosophy.
The Morning After—with a Nod to Vince Lombardi
Carl A. Raschke reflects on Barack Obama's election, warning that political euphoria must give way to shared responsibility before the next global crisis.
Apocalypse Now? The Subaltern Has Spoken
Writing before the 2008 election, Carl A. Raschke considers Obama, globalization, identity politics, and whether an apparent apocalypse signals a new beginning.
The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”
Carl A. Raschke asks whether the 2008 financial crash marks a hinge of history, testing Žižek's call for a new politics against consumer capitalism today.
Hyperreality
Carl A. Raschke reads the 2008 financial crisis through Baudrillard, Mark C. Taylor, and Derrida, asking what hyperreality means for faith and democracy.