... in Kahn’s work, though his stature has grown enormously in 2011’s Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty . Kahn’s subject in the text is the relationship between American power and American culture, a relationship he defines as a “political theological project.” My purpose...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2007 Religion, Politics, Theology: A Conversation with Achille Mbembe This conversation took place in May 2006 at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine. There were questions from...

... as a frontal critique of political theology and partner to the secular humanism proposed by Edward Said. The political and aesthetic activation of secular criticism involves a practical poetics as well as a critique of the conceits of the postsecular, of the notion of a political theology, and the claims...

...Arne De Boever Abstract In this essay, De Boever focuses on a section titled “Idols of Unrepresentability” in the closing pages of Stathis Gourgouris's book The Perils of the One . Scrutinizing the two counterintuitive theses about iconoclasm's political theology and the artwork's desacralizing...

... movement—better known as the indignados , or 15M, movement and its political derivatives, such as municipal platforms, the “mareas,” and Podemos—and second, the Catalan pro-independence movement. Finally, based on Carl Schmitt's political theology, I study the Spanish State's reaction beginning in 2017...

... as performative speech acts. At the site where language, race, and religion–the positive symptoms of decadence–are knotted together, Renan describes a political theology of the color line. The supposed “truths” about Oriental decadence became distributed among the objects of its study (“Orientals”) within...

... engagement with Byzantine iconoclasm and argues that by appropriating elements of Byzantine Aristotelian theology in order to undergird a postsecularist argument, the modern critic dehistoricizes ideas that were firmly rooted in East Roman social, political, and cultural contexts in a manner that ultimately...

... with these questions, this essay develops the notion of theological thinking as a form of critique and a critical theoretical practice for a moment bisected by the (re)turn to theology and the seeming permanence of the theologico-political. Following the examples of James Baldwin and W. E. B. Du Bois, theological...

... . 2010 . “ Ten Theses on Politics .” In Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics , translated and edited by Corcoran Steven , 40 – 41 . London : Continuum . Schmitt Carl . 1922 . Politische Theologie: Vier Kapitel Zur Lehre Von Der Souveränität . München : Duncker & Humblot...

... it is not. At the present pass, even the discipline's recognized opportunity—which lies in its being well positioned institutionally to develop a worldly critical praxis responsive to the politics of the aesthetic—is experienced as a special burden; for no discipline wants to be responsible to “allness” (that is to say...

... of longer and more focused studies, each an examination of the consequences for particular intellectual constellations— from Byzantine history (Dimitris Krallis) to feminist and queer theory (Sadia Abbas, Nikita Dhawan), political theology (Jason Stevens, Gourgouris), and postcolonial criticism...

... to a wholesale demoralization of working-­class life in particular.2 The theologi- zation of welfare promises to restore such values without otherwise ques- tioning the class, gender, or race politics of neoliberal economic reform. In practice, this has translated as an intensification of work-for-­ ­welfare...

... of the Christian faith at the critical moment when it was chosen by Emperor Constantine to become the Roman Empire's official religion is based, as Anton Schütz and Marinos Diamantides ( 2017 : 29) argue in Political Theology: Demystifying the Universal , on the historical need to prove its superiority...

..., Slavoj, Eric L. Santner, and Kenneth Reinhard. The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology. Religion and Postmodernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ...

... and Political Theology. Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Middleton, Peter. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry. Modern and Contemporary Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005...

... without ultimate guarantees and would live with a constant need for self-limitation.­ The tragic question is how to constitute a political community, not how to accommodate religious differences. Tragic thinking operates outside political theology. Despite the systematic attacks by thinkers from...

... and Said) does not content himself with a simple repetition of the prob- lem of recognition. 16. Spanos, Exiles in the City, 54; hereafter cited parenthetically as EC. Villalobos-Ruminott / Spanos’s Polemos 79 ingly, a political theology that, in the face of its...

..., as well as visvis other social beings in the world-historical space. There is no meaningful comparison without the pre- 2. Georg Lukács, Destruction of Reason, trans. Peter Palmer (London: Merlin Press, 1980). 3. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, trans. George Schwab (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press...

...— Werk—Wirkung, edited by Burkhardt Lindner, 193–210. Stuttgart: Metzler. Husserl, Edmund. (1931) 2012. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Translated by W. R. Boyce Gibson. New York: Routledge. Jacobson, Eric. 2003. Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Wal...

....” American Historical Review 56, no. 3: 472–92. 1997.The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Kirke, Charles. 2012. Fratricide in Battle: (Un)Friendly Fire. New York: Bloomsbury. Lutz, Catherine. 2007. “Militarization...