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The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 2 (Anna-Maria Edlinger)

November 13, 2023 — By editors

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first portion can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and

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Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)

November 29, 2022 — By editors

Philo-sophy literally means “love of wisdom.” But this can be read in more than one way. There is the well-known objective genitive, proposing that philosophers

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Critical Conversations – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 1

May 27, 2022 — By editors

The following is the first part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley

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Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 1 (Florian Klug)

June 28, 2021 — By editors

The following is the first of a three-part series. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

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Bushwhacking Derrida – “Perception” – “Context of Context”, “The Hunter And The Hunted” (Gary Bedford)

August 10, 2020 — By editors

After Derrida, how can philosophy continue to think critically, and for our task here, ontologically2…? Can a critique of the context of perception via its

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Longing For An Impossible Past – Derrida’s Of Grammatology And The Coronavirus As The Inauguration Of An Age Of Writing, Part 2 (Jared Lacy)

June 24, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Furthermore there is an element of nostalgia implicit in this desire It

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Longing For An Impossible Past – Derrida’s Of Grammatology And The Coronavirus As The Inauguration Of An Age Of Writing, Part 1 (Jared Lacy)

June 17, 2020 — By editors

As we witness the aftermath of the initial responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — the failures and successes of the various shelter-in-place orders and a

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“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)

May 1, 2020 — By editors

The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the

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Negative Theology And Its Problems: Barth And Marion, Lecture 3 (Johannes Zachhuber)

July 26, 2018 — By editors

The following is the third lecture in an eight-lecture series. I have described in last week’s lecture how, during the 19th century, some serious challenges

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Lutheran Theology And Postmodern Philosophy, Part I (Olli-Pekka Vaino)

May 1, 2018 — By editors

Recently, Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation has received heavy criticism in various theological and philosophical circles It highlights key arguments

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Review – Reverent Irreverence (Amit Gvaryahu)

April 5, 2018 — By Amit Gvaryahu

**Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Weiss, Dov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. ISBN 9780812293050 Hardcover, ebook.

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The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part II (Oleg Komkov)

March 31, 2018 — By editors

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. II. “Absolute Symbolism” of Christian Worldview: The Aesthetic

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The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part I (Oleg Komkov)

March 21, 2018 — By editors

The following is the first part in a two-part installment. This article is an attempt to highlight and reflect on several interrelated issues that seem to be

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Prayer After the Death of God, Part II (Ashley [Gay] Graham)

February 18, 2018 — By editors

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. This abandonment is not a permanent void; rather, it demonstrates

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The One Is Not – On the Fate Of Unity in Post-Metaphysical Philosophy (Jussi Backman)

May 9, 2017 — By editors

*A Turkish translation of a version of this essay has been published as “Bir, bir şey değildir: post-metafizik düşüncede birlik ve çokluğun akıbeti,” trans

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Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)

April 1, 2017 — By editors

**The following is the second half of the article. The first installment can be found here.** Richard Kearney’s theopoetics offers an alternative to the

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Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)

March 22, 2017 — By editors

The following is the first half of the article. The second installment can be found here. Philosophy’s very first utterance, according to Aristotle, present us

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The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)

February 21, 2017 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first part can be found here. The foregoing has been an effort to inscribe das Ding within a

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The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)

February 13, 2017 — By editors

The following article is the first installment of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. “One, two, three, but where is the fourth?”

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Philosophy As Interdisciplinary Intensity – An Interview With Giorgio Agamben (Antonio Gnolio/Ido Govrin)

February 6, 2017 — By editors

The following is an interview with the famed Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben conducted by journalist Antonio Gnolio It highlights key arguments

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The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)

December 26, 2016 — By editors

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first installment, published on Dec. 19, 2016, can be found here. In Writing Degree Zero, Barthes suggests

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The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)

December 19, 2016 — By editors

In his preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault asks the authors’ forgiveness for describing their book as the first book of ethics

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Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 3 (Daniel Rhodes)

December 12, 2016 — By editors

The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. The link to the second is here It highlights

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Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 2 (Daniel Rhodes)

December 6, 2016 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. As the source of productivity, time rendered as

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Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)

December 1, 2016 — By editors

In his long-awaited interjection into the debates on the future of Marxism after the collapse of Soviet state communism, Jacques Derrida introduces the notion

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Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 1 (Ronald Beiner)

August 8, 2016 — By editors

Part 1 traces how Walter Benjamin's theses on history inform Hannah Arendt's account of judgment, emphasizing temporality, critique, and political The

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Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (Jonathan Russell)

June 3, 2016 — By editors

*Schaefer, Donovan O. Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN 10: 978-0-8223-5982-1, 10: It highlights

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Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)

May 27, 2016 — By editors

Biopolitics, as Michel Foucault argued, views populations through an economic lens, as capital to be preserved and multiplied to keep the nation or tradition

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Review – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy

May 12, 2016 — By editors

*Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel. What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer

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