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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 431–444.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Baudrillard Villa Vortex evil Nietzsche Gnosticism The contemporary French novelist Maurice G. Dantec has much in common with Jean Baudrillard. Dantec began as a crime novelist before being drawn increasingly into science fiction. He has been a tremendously prolific author, publishing no fewer than...
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Cultural Politics (2024) 20 (3): 498–508.
Published: 01 November 2024
... on “the Left” in light of its own alternative politics, the latter which takes the form of a gnostic battle for the soul and its authentic form-of-life. The term “conspiracy theory” commonly evokes theories about how the earth is flat or how the NASA moon landings were a hoax. Or, more seriously...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
... markers of certainty, for a new sense of direction, belonging, identity can become a driving force for action. Prominent ways of conceptualizing internal forms of power are Max Weber's charismatic authority or Eric Voegelin's Gnostic revolt ( Voegelin 1987 ; Weber 1988 ). Here the spiritual power comes...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of the development of language, in the form of the ethico-religious philosophies in full expansion, Stoicism and Gnosticism. Thus there exist not only a succession of domains where development creates objective concretizations – language, religion, technology – but there also exist durable overlappings between...
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... (interpretation of the Qur’an). Hence in the howzeh , or madrasseh system (training jurisprudents and preachers), tafsir is not a formal course, since it always plays with the possible hubris and heresy of claiming to know what God wants or intends. Sufism or gnosticism ( ‘irfan ), at best, as with Ayatullah...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 325–338.
Published: 01 November 2011
... ( Villa Vortex , in particular), teasing out a range of shared themes and common influences – notably Nietzsche and Gnosticism – that allow the works of the two writers to inform one another. For Morrey, this throws into relief their essentially similar political (or, better, transpolitical) leanings...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 193–206.
Published: 01 July 2012
... into primordial permission. Here baptism in the desert stands for that ecstasy and knowledge all at once that, as Bowles said, had long motivated his writing-quest to contact some “magic place” of permission into gnostic knowledge: “Like any Romantic,” Bowles writes in his autobiography Without Stopping (1999...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
... (God). God and his government of the world must be brought together. Through the concept of oikonomia , the Trinitarian theology has sought to overcome the Gnostic split between two Gods, by uniting God’s creation with the government of the created world and reconciling a transcendent God who...