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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 137–153.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Stathis Gourgouris This is a meditation on the assertion by Cornelius Castoriadis that “every religion is idolatry.” Idolatry here is configured beyond the conventional understanding of the idol as a concrete object of worship which works within the logic of representation. In monotheism, even...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 February 2013
... statement in Cornelius Castoriadis—“Every religion is idolatry”—and argues that “idolatry,” which all monotheisms seek to relegate to the space of illusion, is what they all in fact share. Abbas’s wide-ranging­ essay takes as its concern the recent schol- arly reinvention of the figure...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 129–151.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... The conversation about art and artists in The Perils of the One can only take on its full meaning if it plays out Gourgouris's understanding of art's presentational power against art's own political theology. One might very well see the difference between critical idolatry and this other, second project...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 2018
... from an idolatry of youth. The student is by defini- tion young. Studying is a stage of life that exists in regard to a “later.” One can have a good time—the so‑called uni-e­ xperience—and live it up until it ends, or one can diligently prepare for the “real life” that comes only after...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 243–244.
Published: 01 May 2018
... recently of The Misinterpellated Subject (Duke University Press, 2017). He is also the author of a trilogy of books on Walter Benjamin: Textual Conspiracies: Walter Benjamin, Idolatry and Political Theory (2011), Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sover- eignty (2011...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (1): 43–64.
Published: 01 February 2020
... giving some precision to the specific ways in which subordinated subjects come to will nothingness rather than not will at all. In narcissism, eroticism, and mysticism, the problem of womanly nihilism turns, as it so often does with Nietzsche, on idolatry. In the spirit of Nietzsche, The Second Sex...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 135–148.
Published: 01 May 2007
... in the cold war, Graham showered invec- tive on American idolatry and vice—its materialism, mass entertainment, mass media, psychoanalytic therapy, university intellectuals, rebel youth, sexual mores, and suburban families. In Peace with God (1952), he writes, “‘The American way of life’ we like...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
... that such an act of divine violence “does not stop short of annihilation. But in annihilation it also expiates” (1996: 250). Thus, not only Korah but his sin of idolatry is erased, as if it had never existed. To read educative power as being part of divine violence would seem to go against much...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 169–175.
Published: 01 August 2020
... with photographs and maps, André Breton s Nadja. I refer instead to all Sebald s contemporaries that many of the Sebaldmaniacos prefer to ignore, either out of basic idolatry or simply because given the choice, they would rather read a single author and not several. This includes names and titles as diverse...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 23–31.
Published: 01 August 2007
... way. In historical research we return again and again to this problem of the persistence of idolatry, with its falsely fixed reassurances seeking to comfort the mind in a world of uncertain appearances. Appreciating ancient authority, the naturalists set their sights...
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boundary 2 (2011) 38 (2): 67–123.
Published: 01 May 2011
...—is always adoration of an object which, with all its absurdities, also contains the generic abstract, God in general.53 He also claimed, “Since immediate knowledge is declared to be the criterion of truth, it follows, secondly, that all superstition or idolatry is expounded...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 February 2018
... with the regressive; and the modern would have to surrender its idolatry of the progressive as identical with the economic. These demands index the struggles between nationalism and republicanism in their claims to be truly Irish—which in this context means truly free to determine what being Irish would...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (4): 215–230.
Published: 01 November 2021
... up to contradiction, difference, or dialectic, that is, to com(op)positionality . To transcend ideology, aesthetic partisanship, movements, groups, and positions is to be blinded by idolatry. A poetics is valuable to the degree that it is able to engender other positions in response, both...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 127–166.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., he says that the all-out war God wanted “against idolatry and idolators” was “an extension of the struggles in the wilderness. Revo- lutionary wars take on something of the ferocity of civil wars and political purges, even when the enemy is not satanic and the end of days is not at hand...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 19–73.
Published: 01 February 2001
... this? For example, Thomas Münster and almost all the medieval heretics, who would call, quite rightly, the Pope’s simony idolatry. And simony is idolatry, all right! So with this example, I may now turn to political economy. I will say that I will be doing theology of liberation, and this is not necessarily...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 151–167.
Published: 01 August 2012
... political group, then it is idolatry to put a man up in God’s place. Right? Of course! At the founding moments of the American republic, there was in England and in the United States the cultivation of close and accurate read- ing, reading that did not jump off the page into the stratosphere...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 223–243.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of idolatry, they might as well have been exhibiting an “improper reading practice.” The champion of the iconophile side, John of Damascus (writing from his monastery in the lands of the caliphate) countered by using lan- guage similar to what Mahmood ascribes to liberal critics: that the icono- clast...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 5–28.
Published: 01 August 2010
... portaverit.22 that which is written: Young was Israel, and I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son, is indeed said of the people of Israel, who are called out of Egypt, who are loved, who are called as if children and young in that period after the error of idolatry...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (3): 133–158.
Published: 01 August 2009
... from such formally accom- plished poetry, however, her goal is not to reject contemporary society tout ensemble. From her standpoint, the outsider-idolatry common among Beats, spoken word artists, and other cold war–era bohemian poetry circles was a wrong turn that deprived them...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 157–179.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to a language that can be bluntly demystifying, full of the proph- et s distrust of false prophecy and idolatry, a sense of the demonic force of empty ideological ciphers and commodified thought. Skeptical of the busi- ness of interpretation and exegesis, the production of readings, Fletcher has more and more...