Carl A. Raschke

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What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)

October 11, 2023 — By Carl A. Raschke

This article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Taylor’s typification of...

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What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

September 28, 2023 — By Carl A. Raschke

Almost a half century ago a change took place in the humanities, and by extension in the fledgling field of...

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Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)

October 5, 2022 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here , the second here. A genealogy...

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Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)

September 21, 2022 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here . The supreme achievement of...

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Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

September 7, 2022 — By Carl A. Raschke

> “Neptunus alii per alia, poterunt intellegi qui qualesque sint, quoque eos nomine consuetudo nuncupaverit,...

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“Progressive Neoliberalism” – Symbolic Capitalism And The Global Reproduction Of The “Precariat” (Interview With Carl Raschke)

July 5, 2020 — By Carl A. Raschke

*Raschke, Carl. Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh...

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The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)

July 19, 2017 — By Carl A. Raschke

This article is the last of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international...

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The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)

July 12, 2017 — By Carl A. Raschke

This article is the second of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international...

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The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

July 4, 2017 — By Carl A. Raschke

This article appears in three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference...

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A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)

August 29, 2016 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the second installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research...

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A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

August 22, 2016 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the first installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research...

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What Egypt Really Means for the Theory of Religion

February 12, 2011 — By Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke interprets Egypt's 2011 uprising through May 1968, youth politics, Derrida, and a universalist...

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Obama’s Cairo Speech: “New Beginning,” New Enlightenment, or Old Aporia?

June 5, 2009 — By Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke analyzes Obama's Cairo speech as a bid for renewed relations between Islam and the West,...

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Specter and Event

May 16, 2009 — By Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke reflects on 2009 as a year of spectral eventfulness, reading Derrida and Nietzsche against...

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“Post-America”: An Exchange

February 10, 2009 — By David Hale; Carl A. Raschke

David Hale and Carl A. Raschke exchange views on American decline, debt, empire, irony, and the uncertain line...

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Dis-Enclosure and the Inaugural Moment

January 22, 2009 — By Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke reads Obama's inauguration beside Jean-Luc Nancy's Dis-Enclosure, asking how event, faith,...

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The Morning After—with a Nod to Vince Lombardi

November 5, 2008 — By Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke reflects on Barack Obama's election, warning that political euphoria must give way to shared...

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Apocalypse Now? The Subaltern Has Spoken

November 3, 2008 — By Carl A. Raschke

Writing before the 2008 election, Carl A. Raschke considers Obama, globalization, identity politics, and...

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The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”

October 17, 2008 — By Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke asks whether the 2008 financial crash marks a hinge of history, testing Žižek's call for a new...

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Hyperreality

September 20, 2008 — By Carl A. Raschke

Carl A. Raschke reads the 2008 financial crisis through Baudrillard, Mark C. Taylor, and Derrida, asking what...

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