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### [The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach/)

November 4, 2021 — By Michael C. Raubach

In her 1992 masterpiece, The Broken Middle, the philosopher Gillian Rose explored what she saw as a baleful crisis of ethics in modern political discourse

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### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 3 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajrayana-buddhism-part-3/)

June 21, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald

The following is the third and final installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here It highlights

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### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 2 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajrayana-buddhism-part-2/)

June 8, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald

The following is the second installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here It highlights

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### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajranayana-buddhism-part-1/)

May 27, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald

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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