#philosophy
What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
Almost a half century ago a change took place in the humanities, and by extension in the fledgling field of religious studies It highlights key arguments
Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)
The following is the second of a two part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and
Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. As to the purpose of this spirit dancing, Kopenawa constantly emphasizes that
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (Rebekah Howes)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (Rebekah Howes)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found here It highlights key arguments
Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)
The following is the third of a three part-series. The first can be found here, the second here. Where planning fails, despair grows Planning is also faithless.
Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 2 (Erik Meganck)
The following is the second of a three part-series. The first can be found here. Love is not the opposite of planning; openness is not the opposite of
Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)
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
The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)
God, if we hold to this word, is the future itself, or rather the eternal reservoir beyond time and creating time, who constantly projects himself or pours
“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 2 (A.G. Holdier)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. In short, then, despite the absence of God in Bad Times, the characters all come
Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)
When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below It highlights key arguments
“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 2 (N.E. Boulting
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Two not unrelated factors result in her rejection of ‘the New Science’ besides
“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)
Can the debilitating effects of Scientism – identifying knowledge solely “with science” – be overcome? To answer that question, Simone Weil’s treatment of her
Critical Conversations 9 – Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the ninth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)
The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Philosophically speaking, Hegel’s Absolute idealism represented
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)
In the Christian tradition, the question of whether philosophy is necessary for theology, or even relevant to it, is a question almost as old as theology
The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 2 (J. Edward Hackett)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Before talking about Scheler’s conception of the person It highlights
The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)
Among recent developments in continental philosophy and religious thought, one of the most prominent has been a ‘return to Hegel.’ It has been exemplified in
From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 1 (Jakob Deibl)
The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Translated by Philipp Schlögl. Friederich Hölderlin’s famous quote “Thus all Religion would be
God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the sixth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. I started the last couple of lectures with elaborate
Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)
*Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris (Eds.), Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute 299 pages.
Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)
*Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback Hardback. It highlights
Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)
> I am wondering if the agony of years > Could be traced to the seed of an hour > If the roots that spread out in the swamp > Ran too deep for the issuing
God And Existence, Lecture 4 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the fourth lecture in an eight-part lecture series. Readers can also refer to lectures one, two, and three It highlights key arguments
Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy, Part II (Olli-Pekka Vaino)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. Postmodern thinking is generally suspicious against It highlights
Lutheran Theology And Postmodern Philosophy, Part I (Olli-Pekka Vaino)
Recently, Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation has received heavy criticism in various theological and philosophical circles It highlights key arguments
Admitting A Certain Fear of Zizek’s Theology – A Modest Plea For A Deleuzian Reading Of The Death Of God (Elijah Prewitt-Davis)
I am told by Zizek—as well as Hegelian friends—that any attempt to argue or disagree with Hegel fits nicely within his dialectical scheme It highlights
Review – Three Agambens on Display (S.J. Cowan)
Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage. Edited by Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1474423647 ISBN-10: 1474423647.
Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)
**Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Zizek. Edited by Philip Goodchild and Hollis Phelps. New York: Routledge, 2017 It highlights
The One Is Not – On the Fate Of Unity in Post-Metaphysical Philosophy (Jussi Backman)
*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
Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)
*Smith, Anthony Paul. Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 0745671233. Hardcover, paperback, e-book Hardcover, paperback, e-book.
Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
**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
Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
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
Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (Konstantinos Kavoulakos)
Axel Honneth’s Reification. A New Look at an Old Idea (2008) and Andrew Feenberg’s Philosophy of Praxis (2014) represent two recent publications, which give a
The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
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
Philosophy As Interdisciplinary Intensity – An Interview With Giorgio Agamben (Antonio Gnolio/Ido Govrin)
The following is an interview with the famed Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben conducted by journalist Antonio Gnolio It highlights key arguments
Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)
*Laruelle, François. General Theory of Victims. Translated by Jessie Hock and Alex Dubilet. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0745679617 It highlights
Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (N.N. Trakakis)
*Thacker, Eugene. Cosmic Pessimism. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2015. ISBN-10: 193756147X. E-book, paperback. 55 pages.* It might be worth quoting from
Review – Jean-Pierre Couture Brings To Life The Ongoing Oeuvre of Peter Sloterdijk
*Couture, Jean-Pierre. Sloterdijk (Key Contemporary Thinkers). Boston: Polity, 2015. 208 pages. ISBN-10: 0745663818. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 208 pages
Recovering the Unconscious – A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion – CFP
A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Sponsored by the University of Denver and the Colorado Analytic Forum
Conferences and CFPs – Upcoming
Beyond Habermas? Critical Theory, Political Theology, and Interreligious Dialogue “Habermas’ postsecular perspective of socio-political integration has had a
Life As Art – Aesthetic Virtue and Moral Obligation
Virtue ethics has received much attention throughout the last decades. While some of the corresponding works are dealing with questions of aesthetics, there