... cosmologies, linguistic, and cultural formations–could be harnessed into a monotheistic edifice of faith. Only then could that singular faith be parlayed into nationalist feeling for one Hindu nation. The aspired-for Hindu monotheism would then not just yield a Hindu nation in the world but would also...

...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...

...Bishnupriya Ghosh Abstract This essay reviews Anustup Basu's book Hindutva as Political Monotheism (2020) in the context of current debates over Hindu political theology after the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral wins of 2014 and 2018. The book charts the consolidation of Hinduism...

... , edited by Baer Ulrich , 84 – 100 . Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp Verlag . Freud Sigmund . 1938 . Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays . In The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud: Vol. 23: Moses and Monotheism, An Outline of Psycho-Analysis and Other Works (1937–1939...

.... 18. Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time, trans. Mario Wenning (New York: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 2010), 59. Hereafter, this work is cited parenthetically as RT. 188 boundary 2 / Fall 2014 theological manifestations under monotheism, and ultimately its political articulations in communism...

... monotheism salvaged itself from the Trinitarian danger of polytheism (via the oikonomic logic of Kingdom and Oikos , Creation and Government, God and “Man-God,” One and Multiplicity), I wonder if the schematism of negativity at play here does not find a juncture between the Indians’ anti-Oneness...

... 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...

... it is not surprising that the Qurʾan has not yet become part of the Western canon of monotheistic theology. A text standing firmly in the Abrahamic tradition, no less compelling than the Jewish and Christian sources, continues to be viewed as controversial precisely because of its relationship to Abrahamic monotheism...

.... Reb found “peace” there—who wouldn't want that?—not to mention a transcendentalist-tinged “solitude.” But Reb's final reflection on the place, itself the final stanza of the poem, is the kicker: “Nobody was there.” (126) Freud famously argued in Moses and Monotheism that it wasn't until...

... is still the same” (8:30). The phrase “no matter if they worship many gods or one god” could refer to pantheism, monotheism, or atheism, yet they are in accord with “the intention of fulfilling man’s spiritual need to uplift himself.” There are two points worthy of atten- tion here. First, Lu Xun’s...

... for holding their own in commercial life and, where they are admitted, for making valuable contributions to every form of cultural activity.13 13. Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 23, ed. James Strachey (London...

... the idol, as Gourgouris notes, within the logic of monotheism—because monotheism follows the logic of the one, and the idol always inevitably adds to that: it turns the one into two. It is this simple fact of addition, of the artwork's power of presentation (as Gourgouris also calls it), that renders...

... . ———. 1990b . “Moses and Monotheism: Three Essays.” In The Origins of Religion , translated and edited by Strachey James . Penguin Freud Library , vol. 13 , 239 – 386 . Harmondsworth : Penguin . Gould Stephen Jay . 1991 . “Exaptation: A Crucial Tool for an Evolutionary Psychology...

...’’ in Sigmund Freud’s bold gesture of writing Moses and Monotheism as the last response of a profoundly secular mind to a world of single-minded identities and totalizing violence. Freud’s own unresolved sense of identity (on many registers, not merely the cultural, but also the scientific and professional...

... monotheism in the first place? We can add a few more to these: when reli- . See Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. Charles Schwab (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1976), and Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Con- cept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab...

... that of a prophetic monotheism, as for example in the current Islamic terrorist ideologies. (There's much talk about the disasters of all three monotheisms in my and Adonis's Conversations in the Pyrenees [Adonis and Joris 2018 ]). But given that the idea of nomadism doesn't ab initio include a return...

... as to its history) that the discourse of the miracle as the contravention of nature is quintessentially religious, having shifted from the signifying framework of magic in polytheism to the signifying framework of divine truth in monotheism. The historical advent of the Christian discourse...

..., of the con- 16. Lest we think Sloterdijk didn’t have his “Habermas moment” and come to recognize that God is alive and well in many quarters in the world today, we should point out that God’s Zeal: The Battle of the Three Monotheisms (Sloterdijk: 2009) confronts the histori- cal trajectories...

... in school curricula. In popular culture, the last thousand years have come to be rewritten as an eternal battle between Indian polytheism and Abrahamic monotheism in the form of Islam, and later, Christianity, including Christianity secularized into liberal modernity. On one side in this agon is an endless...

.... 36 boundary 2 / Summer 2004 seen as comparable, if not equal, to a linguistic monotheism whose very sound-values—as in the case of classical or Koranic Arabic—are thought to be tangible evidence of paradise.1 Said’s reading of divine language in the preface to Mimesis intimates—though...