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The first portion can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and View Article ### [The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 1 (Anna-Maria Edlinger)](/religioustheory/posts/the-sacred-as-bordering-practice-part-1-anna-maria-edlinger/) Anna-Maria Edlinger Part 1 theorizes the sacred as bordering practice, showing how ritual and discourse draw limits, authorize belonging, and organize contested social and View Article ### [The Imagination In Spinoza – The Moral Good Between Prophecy And The Amor Dei Intellectualis, Part 1 (Caterina De Gaetano)](/religioustheory/posts/the-imagination-in-spinoza-the-moral-good-between-prophecy-and-the-amor-dei-intellectualis-part-1-caterina-de-gaetano/) Caterina Gaetano The following is the first of a two-part series. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights View Article ### [Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, And The Quotidian Academic Terror Of “Christian Nationalism”](/religioustheory/posts/evangelicalism-pentecostalism-and-the-quotidian-academic-terror-of-christian-nationalism/) editors The following essay appeared recently in The New Polis. It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism? View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-part-3-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here , the second here. A genealogy of the neoliberalization, together with the View Article ### [Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-part-2-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here . The supreme achievement of neoliberalism, according to Han, is that it has View Article ### [Critical Conversations – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 2](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-a-conversation-with-arthur-bradley-on-sovereignty-part-2/) editors The following is the second part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley View Article ### [Critical Conversations – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 1](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-a-conversation-with-arthur-bradley-on-sovereignty-part-1/) editors The following is the first part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley View Article ### [From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-2-rode-molla/) Rode Molla The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Tumsa, as a theologian, focused on social justice and the hermeneutical View Article ### [Psychedelic Aesthetics And The Crises Of Liberalism – A “Critical Conversation” With Roger Green](/religioustheory/posts/psychedelic-aesthetics-and-the-crises-of-liberalism-a-critical-conversation-with-roger-green/) Roger K. Green The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: View Article ### [The Fracturing Of World Order – A Series of International and Interdisciplinary Online Mini-Conferences, Call For Papers And Presentations (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/the-fracturing-of-world-order-a-series-of-international-and-interdisciplinary-online-mini-conferences-call-for-papers-and-presentations-announcement/) editors The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and The New Polis in collaboration with representatives of the University of Denver announces a call for papers View Article ### [Critical Conversations – The Power Of “Political Erasure”, A Seminar With Arthur Bradley (Announcements)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-the-power-of-political-erasure-a-seminar-with-arthur-bradley-announcements/) editors Sign up for this online seminar with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley on the compelling and most timely issue of “political erasure.“ View Article ### [Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings Of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 3 (Jake Sirota)](/religioustheory/posts/geschlecht-iii-authentic-faith-religion-and-politics-in-derridas-readings-of-heideggers-geist-part-3-jake-sirota/) Jake S. Sirota The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Derrida’s suspicion of and discomfort with the seemingly View Article ### [Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 1 (Jake Sirota)](/religioustheory/posts/geschlecht-iii-authentic-faith-religion-and-politics-in-derridas-readings-of-heideggers-geist-part-1-jake-sirota/) Jake S. Sirota Jacques Derrida’s prolonged and intimate proximity to the thought of Martin Heidegger has played a significant role in the understanding and debate of Derrida’s View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/lets-get-real-about-race-two-very-timely-upcoming-online-seminars-announcement/) editors It’s time to get real when we talk these days about race and racism. Ever since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the late spring of 2020 at the View Article ### [Difficult Discussions – Christian Evangelicalism And Critical Race Theory (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/difficult-discussions-christian-evangelicalism-and-critical-race-theory-announcement/) editors When: Thursday, September 23, 2021, 10 am-12 pm (Mountain Daylight Time) Register for online seminar: It highlights key arguments and implications for View Article ### [Antinomian Flesh, Part 3 (David Kline)](/religioustheory/posts/antinomian-flesh-part-3-david-kline/) David Kline The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Both before nomos and therefore its condition of enactment, the View Article ### [Critical Conversations – 2020 And The Catastrophe Of The Global Neoliberal Order (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-2020-and-the-catastrophe-of-the-global-neoliberal-order-announcement/) editors Participants are invited to join us live in the fourth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the View Article ### [Antinomian Flesh, Part 2 (David Kline)](/religioustheory/posts/antinomian-flesh-part-2-david-kline/) David Kline The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The above descriptions of nomos encapsulate general sociological, political View Article ### [Antinomian Flesh, Part 1 (David Kline)](/religioustheory/posts/antinomian-flesh-part-1-david-kline/) David Kline In this essay I explore the idea of what I call an “antinomian flesh.” Looking to the concept of nomos theorized by sociologists, political and legal theorists View Article ### [Critical Conversations -“Subjectivities Since The Sixties” (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/3343/) editors Participants are invited to join us live in the second of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the View Article ### [“The End Of Cognitive Empire” (Critical Conversations)](/religioustheory/posts/the-end-of-cognitive-empire-critical-conversations/) editors The following is the video and transcript of the first of “Critical Conversations”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis View Article ### [“Progressive Neoliberalism” – Symbolic Capitalism And The Global Reproduction Of The “Precariat” (Interview With Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/progressive-neoliberalism-symbolic-capitalism-and-the-global-reproduction-of-the-precariat-interview-with-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke *Raschke, Carl. Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019 It highlights key arguments View Article ### [“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 2 (James E. Willis, III)](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-part-2-james-e-willis-iii/) James E. Willis III The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. A philosophy of finite human time is one way to read Martin Hägglund’s recent View Article ### [“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-james-e-willis-iii/) James E. Willis III 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 View Article ### [Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis – Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/reframing-the-adwa-victory-as-a-decolonizing-praxis-discourse-around-colonization-in-the-ethiopian-context-part-2-rode-molla/) Rode Molla The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Foucault, in his book, Discipline, and Punish, describes how the human body is View Article ### [To Not Lose Sight Of The Good – Notes On The Zapatismo Ethic, Part 1 (Matt Rosen)](/religioustheory/posts/to-not-lose-sight-of-the-good-notes-on-the-zapatismo-ethic-part-1-matt-rosen/) Matt Rosen On the first of January 1994, as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army View Article ### [Review – The Intimate Universal (Stephen Bujno)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-intimate-universal-stephen-bujno/) Stephen Bujno *William Desmond, The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics. Columbia University Press, 2016. 520 pages View Article ### [Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (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-2-philipp-valentini/) Philipp Valentini The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. A non-Paulinian theology understands the Law not as a whole but as View Article ### [Announcing “The New Polis” – An E-Publication On Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis, And Political Thought](/religioustheory/posts/announcing-the-new-polis-an-e-publication-on-critical-theory-cultural-analysis-and-political-thought/) editors The directors of The Whitestone Foundation, the Colorado-based 501(c)3 non-profit corporation that has published The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory View Article ### [From Christology to Political Theology (Cyril Hovorun)](/religioustheory/posts/from-christology-to-political-theology-cyril-hovorun/) Cyril Hovorun In the Christian Antiquity and later on during the Middle Ages, there was neither separation nor much distinction between the theological and the political View Article ### [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/) 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. View Article ### [Review – Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Negative Reactions to the Jewish Pre- and Post-Holocaust (Madison Tarleton)](/religioustheory/posts/review-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil-negative-reactions-to-jewish-people-pre-and-post-holocaust-madison-tarleton/) Madison Tarleton Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives. Basingstoke United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 It highlights View Article ### [Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 2 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-2-vivek-swaroop-sharma/) Vivek Swaroop Sharma The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. There are two important qualifications to the following View Article ### [Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 1 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-1-vivek-swaroop-sharma/) Vivek Swaroop Sharma Killing hundreds of people in the name of “cow protection” would, at first glance, appear to be a headline drawn from a Monty Python skit It highlights View Article ### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-2-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke This article is the second of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk View Article ### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-1-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke This article appears in three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk Conference View Article ### [Review – Economy And Ontology From Agamben To Nancy (Taylor Weaver)](/religioustheory/posts/review-economy-and-ontology-from-agamben-to-nancy-taylor-weaver/) Taylor Weaver *Bird, Greg. Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4384-6185-4 View Article ### [Review – Caputo’s “Spooky” Call To Theology (Rob Kennedy)](/religioustheory/posts/review-caputos-spooky-call-to-theology-rob-kennedy/) Rob Kennedy *Caputo, John D., Moody, Sarah, and DeLay, Tad., It Spooks: Living In Response To An Unheard Call. Rapid City SD: Shelter50 Publishing Collective, 2015 View Article ### [Review – The Origins of Neoliberalism: A Racialized Review (Adam F. Braun)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-origins-of-neoliberalism-a-racialized-review-adam-f-braun/) Adam F. Braun *Leshem, Dotan. The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0231177763 View Article ### [Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/forging-a-path-from-theory-to-theology-review-essay-matt-waggoner/) Matt Waggoner *Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections: View Article ### [Review – Neoliberalsm Is Nowhere – Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos (Isaiah Dylan Ellis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-neoliberalismisnowhere-wendy-browns-undoing-the-demos-isaiah/) Isaiah Dylan Ellis * Brown, Wendy. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books, 2015. ISBN-10: 1935408534. Hardcover Hardcover. It highlights View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Lacan, Levinas, And The Politics Of The Subject (Joshua Lawrence)](/religioustheory/posts/lacan-levinas-and-the-politics-of-the-subject-joshua-lawrence/) Joshua Lawrence Psychoanalysis has undeniably played a significant role in the development of theories critical of the social landscape It highlights key arguments and View Article ### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-part-2-roger-green/) Roger K. Green 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 View Article ### [Review – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-greatest-trick-god-ever-pulled-benjamin-steele-fisher/) Benjamin Steele-Fisher *Kotsko, Adam. The Prince of this World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1503600203. Hardcover, paperback, e-book It highlights key View Article ### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 2 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-2-daniel-rhodes/) Daniel Rhodes 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 View Article ### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-1-daniel-rhodes/) Daniel Rhodes 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 View Article ### [Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 2 (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-2-daniel-tutt/) Daniel Tutt The following is the second installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been View Article ### [Review – Of Politics and Motion (Joshua Lawrence)](/religioustheory/posts/review-of-politics-and-motion-joshua-lawrence/) Joshua Lawrence * Nail, Thomas. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0804796580. 312 pages.* If the 21st century is indeed the century View Article ### [Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 1 (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-1-daniel-tutt/) Daniel Tutt The following is the first installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been View Article ### [A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/a-preface-to-the-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-part-2-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke The following is the second installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research Platform on Religion and Transformation from the View Article ### [Review – L.L. Welborn’s Synthesis of New Testament Scholarship and Critical Theory’s Recent Interest in the Apostle Paul (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-l-l-welborns-synthesis-of-new-testament-scholarship-and-critical-theorys-recent-interest-in-the-apostle-paul-benjamin-steele-fisher/) Benjamin Steele-Fisher *Welborn, Larry L. Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and View Article ### [A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/a-preface-to-the-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-part-1-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke The following is the first installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research Platform on Religion and Transformation from the View Article ### [Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 2 (Ronald Beiner)](/religioustheory/posts/benjamins-concept-of-history-as-a-source-of-arendts-idea-of-judgment-part-2-ronald-beiner/) Ronald Beiner Part 2 extends the Benjamin-Arendt comparison by testing judgment against crisis and memory, clarifying how historical rupture reshapes political discernment View Article ### [Review – Giorgio Agamben and the Theory of Civil War (Ignas Kalpokas)](/religioustheory/posts/review-giorgio-agamben-and-the-theory-of-civil-war-kalpokas/) Ignas Kalpokas *Agamben, Giorgio. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Nicholas Heron Translated by Nicholas Heron. View Article ### [Review – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-darker-grittier-deleuze/) Timothy Snediker *Culp, Andrew. Dark Deleuze (Forerunners: Ideas First). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN 10: 1517901332 Paperback, e-book It highlights View Article ### [Review – Agamben’s Political Reading of the Trial of Jesus (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/review-agambens-political-reading-of-the-trial-of-jesus/) Ryne Beddard *Agamben, Giorgio. Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Adam Kotsko. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 It highlights View Article ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 3 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-3/) Roger K. Green The following is the last of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. The second part was published on June 17 It highlights View Article ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-2/) Roger K. Green The following is the second of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. It is especially significant that Heidegger’s attention to the View Article ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-1/) Roger K. Green The term “political theology” is currently used in a variety of ways in current debate over the place of liberalism amid world crises in politics and It View Article ### [Review – Carl Raschke’s Force of God Hammers Out A Political Theology Of Insurrection/Resurrection For Our Times](/religioustheory/posts/review-carl-raschkes-force-of-god-hammers-out-a-political-theology-of-insurrection-resurrection-for-our-times/) editors Raschke, Carl. Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-978-0231-17384-1 It View Article ### [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/) editors *Couture, Jean-Pierre. Sloterdijk (Key Contemporary Thinkers). Boston: Polity, 2015. 208 pages. ISBN-10: 0745663818. 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