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                ![Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI](https://files.jcrt.org/images/books/9781350602502.webp)

### [Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI](/religioustheory/posts/9781350602502/)

September 9, 2026 — By David Roome

David Roome reviews Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine, which recovers Kant’s critical philosophy as a diagnostic of what machine learning, artificial moral agency, and...

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                ![What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/09/viewing_robert_smithsons_spiral_jetty_on_june_18th_2018-1200x642.webp)

### [What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/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 religious studies It highlights key arguments

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                ![Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/07/emmanuel_levinas_cropped.webp)

### [Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)](/religioustheory/posts/trauma-in-emmanuel-levinas-writing-body-part-2-magdalena-sedmak/)

June 30, 2023 — By 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

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                ![Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/04/800px-mongol_shaman_just_before_rituals.webp)

### [Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)](/religioustheory/posts/introducing-spirit-dance-social-justice-and-reconstructed-spiritual-practices-part-2-joshua-hall/)

March 31, 2023 — By Joshua M. 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

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                ![Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (Rebekah Howes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/02/hegel-dancing.webp)

### [Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (Rebekah Howes)](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-2-rebekah-howes/)

January 30, 2023 — By 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

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                ![Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (Rebekah Howes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/02/hegel_042.webp)

### [Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (Rebekah Howes)](/religioustheory/posts/hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-1-rebekah-howes/)

January 12, 2023 — By 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

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                ![Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/12/rodin_the_thinker_p1070090.webp)

### [Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-3-erik-meganck/)

December 29, 2022 — By 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.

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                ![Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 2 (Erik Meganck)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/12/retro-futurism.webp)

### [Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 2 (Erik Meganck)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-2-erik-meganck/)

December 15, 2022 — By 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

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                ![Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/12/1600px-platos_symposium_met_dp888791.webp)

### [Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-1-erik-meganck/)

November 29, 2022 — By 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

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                ![The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/12/visnow_example_visualization_-_molecular_electrostatics.webp)

### [The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-1-lenart-skof/)

December 2, 2021 — By 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

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                ![“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 2 (A.G. Holdier)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/800px-faith_fides_from_the_virtues_met_dp818312.webp)

### [“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 2 (A.G. Holdier)](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-2-a-g-holdier/)

September 22, 2021 — By 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

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                ![Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/06/the_kiss_klimt-1.webp)

### [Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-10-tenderness-or-putting-neoliberalism-on-the-analysts-couch-announcement/)

June 4, 2021 — By editors

When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below It highlights key arguments

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                ![“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 2 (N.E. Boulting](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/05/fishing-pole.webp)

### [“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 2 (N.E. Boulting](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-2-n-e-boulting/)

May 18, 2021 — By 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

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                ![“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/05/2014-08-25-simoneweilcroquis-byth-rioult.webp)

### [“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-1-n-e-boulting/)

May 11, 2021 — By 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

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                ![Critical Conversations 9 – Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/05/aamidor-on-chuck-taylor-image-2.webp)

### [Critical Conversations 9 – Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-9-economic-theology-and-the-indebtedness-of-everyday-life-announcement/)

April 19, 2021 — By editors

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

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                ![Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/03/img_7446-1.webp)

### [Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)](/religioustheory/posts/modern-theology-and-the-dialectic-of-god-part-3-kelly-maeshiro/)

February 22, 2021 — By 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

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                ![Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/02/god_by_gabe_alberro.webp)

### [Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)](/religioustheory/posts/modern-theology-and-the-dialectic-of-god-part-1-kelly-maeshiro/)

February 1, 2021 — By 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

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                ![The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 2 (J. Edward Hackett)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/04/download.webp)

### [The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 2 (J. Edward Hackett)](/religioustheory/posts/the-curious-whiteheadian-proclivity-in-schelers-account-of-god-and-persons-part-2-j-edward-hackett/)

April 23, 2020 — By 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

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                ![The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/05/hegel_by_kugler_retouched.webp)

### [The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-new-hegel-and-the-question-of-god-part-1-gavin-hyman/)

May 24, 2019 — By 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

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                ![From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 1 (Jakob Deibl)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/hoelderlin.webp)

### [From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 1 (Jakob Deibl)](/religioustheory/posts/from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics/)

April 30, 2019 — By 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

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                ![God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/04/ludwig-wittgenstein.webp)

### [God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-language-lecture-6-johannes-zachhuber/)

April 2, 2019 — By 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

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                ![Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/02/dewang-gupta-636342-unsplash.webp)

### [Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-enigmatic-absolute-stanimir-panayotov/)

February 22, 2019 — By Stanimir Panayotov

*Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris (Eds.), Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute 299 pages.

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                ![Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/02/55c1056e-0b10-4b38-9128-b51fd8fbb1e3.webp)

### [Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)](/religioustheory/posts/review-performance-apophatics-john-matthew-allison/)

February 7, 2019 — By John Matthew Allison

*Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback Hardback. It highlights

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                ![Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/09/dervish-ceremony.webp)

### [Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)](/religioustheory/posts/transmodern-sufism-or-stepping-with-levinas-on-the-footprints-of-a-speculative-sufism-not-re-framed-by-20th-century-orientalists-part-1-philipp-valentini/)

September 6, 2018 — By 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

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                ![God And Existence, Lecture 4 (Johannes Zachhuber)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/08/img_2603.webp)

### [God And Existence, Lecture 4 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-existence-lecture-4-johannes-zachhuber/)

August 29, 2018 — By 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

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                ![Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy, Part II (Olli-Pekka Vaino)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/05/img_0946.webp)

### [Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy, Part II (Olli-Pekka Vaino)](/religioustheory/posts/lutheran-theology-and-postmodern-philosophy-part-ii-olli-pekka-vaino/)

May 9, 2018 — By 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

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                ![Lutheran Theology And Postmodern Philosophy, Part I (Olli-Pekka Vaino)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/01/luther95theses.webp)

### [Lutheran Theology And Postmodern Philosophy, Part I (Olli-Pekka Vaino)](/religioustheory/posts/lutheran-theology-and-postmodern-philosophy-part-i-olli-pekka-vaino/)

May 1, 2018 — By Olli-Pekka Vaino

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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                ![Admitting A Certain Fear of Zizek’s Theology – A Modest Plea For A Deleuzian Reading Of The Death Of God (Elijah Prewitt-Davis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/04/horror.webp)

### [Admitting A Certain Fear of Zizek’s Theology – A Modest Plea For A Deleuzian Reading Of The Death Of God (Elijah Prewitt-Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/admitting-a-certain-fear-of-zizeks-theology-a-modest-plea-for-a-deleuzian-reading-of-the-death-of-god-elijah-prewitt-davis/)

April 9, 2018 — By 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

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                ![Review – Three Agambens on Display (S.J. Cowan)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/agamben-c2.webp)

### [Review – Three Agambens on Display (S.J. Cowan)](/religioustheory/posts/review-three-agambens-on-display-the-metaphysical-political-and-literary-components-of-agambens-philosophical-lineage-sj-cowan/)

February 6, 2018 — By 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.

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                ![Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/wordcloud.webp)

### [Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whither-philosophy-of-religion-benjamin-steele-fisher/)

October 27, 2017 — By 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

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                ![The One Is Not – On the Fate Of Unity in Post-Metaphysical Philosophy (Jussi Backman)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/aristotle-metaphysics.webp)

### [The One Is Not – On the Fate Of Unity in Post-Metaphysical Philosophy (Jussi Backman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-one-is-not-on-the-fate-of-unity-in-post-metaphysical-philosophy-jussi-backman/)

May 9, 2017 — By 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

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                ![Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/laruelle.webp)

### [Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-stranger-thought-for-stranger-times-liam-burrell/)

April 6, 2017 — By Liam Burrell

*Smith, Anthony Paul. Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 0745671233. Hardcover, paperback, e-book Hardcover, paperback, e-book.

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                ![Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/04/under-den-linden.webp)

### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-2-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

April 1, 2017 — By 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

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                ![Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/mesopotamia.webp)

### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-1-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

March 22, 2017 — By 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

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### [Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (Konstantinos Kavoulakos)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophical-anthropology-or-philosophy-of-praxis-axel-honneth-and-andrew-feenberg-on-lukacs-theory-of-reification-konstantinos-kavoulakos/)

March 15, 2017 — By 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

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### [The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/the-place-of-das-ding-psychoanalysis-phenomenology-religion-part-2-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

February 21, 2017 — By 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

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### [Philosophy As Interdisciplinary Intensity – An Interview With Giorgio Agamben (Antonio Gnolio/Ido Govrin)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-interdisciplinary-intensity-an-interview-with-giorgio-agamben-antonio-gnolioido-govrin/)

February 6, 2017 — By 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

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### [Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)](/religioustheory/posts/review-francois-laruelles-general-theory-of-victims-john-matthew-allison/)

November 17, 2016 — By 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

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                ![Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (N.N. Trakakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/cioran.webp)

### [Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (N.N. Trakakis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-eugene-thackers-cosmic-pessimism/)

October 27, 2016 — By 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

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### [Review – Jean-Pierre Couture Brings To Life The Ongoing Oeuvre of Peter Sloterdijk](/religioustheory/posts/review-jean-pierre-couture-brings-to-life-for-first-time-the-entire-works-of-sloterdijk/)

April 15, 2016 — By editors

*Couture, Jean-Pierre. Sloterdijk (Key Contemporary Thinkers). Boston: Polity, 2015. 208 pages. ISBN-10: 0745663818. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 208 pages

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                ![Recovering the Unconscious – A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion – CFP](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/freud-and-clutter.webp)

### [Recovering the Unconscious – A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion – CFP](/religioustheory/posts/call-for-papers-and-presentation-recovering-the-unconcious-a-conference-on-the-intersection-of-psychoanalysis-with-politics-philosophy-and-religion/)

April 2, 2016 — By editors

A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Sponsored by the University of Denver and the Colorado Analytic Forum

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### [Conferences and CFPs – Upcoming](/religioustheory/posts/upcoming-conferences-call-for-papers/)

February 26, 2016 — By editors

Beyond Habermas? Critical Theory, Political Theology, and Interreligious Dialogue “Habermas’ postsecular perspective of socio-political integration has had a

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### [Life As Art – Aesthetic Virtue and Moral Obligation](/religioustheory/posts/life-as-art-aesthetic-virtue-and-moral-obligation/)

February 24, 2016 — By editors

Virtue ethics has received much attention throughout the last decades. While some of the corresponding works are dealing with questions of aesthetics, there

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