Agamben Symposium: Charles Mathewes
Hollywood and academia may not often be thought of in one breath, but they do share some things, not the least being a hyperventilating and parochial culture of celebrity. Having been in this business...
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Agamben and the Arctic Lily: Some Thoughts on The Kingdom and the Glory I began reading Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory as part of a larger reading agenda for a project called ‘The Sacred Economy’....
View ArticleFurther reflections on Agamben, Marx, and Alberto Toscano’s “Divine Management”
It is perhaps inevitable that the claims of a thinker such as Agamben should be profoundly annoying to those firmly rooted in a hardcore "historical materialist" perspective. Despite the fact that Marx...
View ArticleAgamben Symposium Round-Up
Over the summer posts on this blog have discussed Giorgio Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory. Longer versions of some of these posts will be featured in an upcoming issue of the print version of...
View ArticleConfronting the Current Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Toward a Genealogical...
I have been asked by Political Theology to share the content and context for my forthcoming book tentatively title Force of God: Religion, Political Thought, and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. This...
View ArticleThe Prince of This World: Thinking the Devil in Light of Agamben’s Kingdom...
The reader of the first three volumes of Agamben’s Homo Sacer series—the eponymous first volume, State of Exception, and Remnants of Auschwitz—could be forgiven for being skeptical. Though Agamben’s...
View ArticlePerforming Profanation: Giorgio Agamben’s Non-Non-Christianity
The recent interest shown in religion and, specifically, Christianity, by otherwise non-religious thinkers has been something of a boon for theologians and the like-minded. Even when such non-Christian...
View ArticleAlienation as a Form of Life: Thoughts on Language
My hypothesis is that the enigmatic institution, both juridical and religious, that we designate with the term oath can only be made intelligible if it is situated within a persepctive in which it...
View ArticleReasoning about Exceptions – Editorial for Political Theology 15.5
One of the most important tasks for political theologians today is the cultivation of capacities for democratic reasoning about exceptions to the rule of law. The task is important because liberal...
View ArticleGuantánamo Diary: Interrogating the War on Terror (Pt. 1) (by Maryam El-Shall)
. . . We live in an age of terror, but not because we have been terrorized by the Other. Rather, the terrorism we recognize is the consequence of an a priori distinction between lives that matter and...
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