...Bülent Diken The article thematizes the difference between superstition and faith through an allegorical double reading of social theory and Ken Russell’s film The Devils . It discusses the political implications of this difference, contrasting the function of “love of God” in mysticism...

...Douglas Morrey The french crime and science fiction novelist Maurice G. Dantec shares with Jean Baudrillard a profound Nietzschean inspiration and a postulation that the death of God has brought about a consequent murder of the real and the installation of twin illusions: that of an integral...

... inherent lack of intention. We can now see that the Golem's acts are blind because it has no self-consciousness. It has no intention. There is no intention and, therefore, no objective to miss. It is the material element of a fallen God, but it has no self-consciousness. This is the limitation of its...

... way of expunging God from politics. My aim has been to retrieve the experiential basis of the relations between authority and salvation. In the politics of transcendence, the normative quest for order arises from the quest for new markers of certainty in absolute politics. The transgression...

... it with historical phenomena that make up the historical process. I believe Hegel’s conception of human history as rational, hence cognizable, provides an important theoretical advance over slightly earlier efforts to understand history through God. Kant suggests we should comprehend history as if it were...

..., to the multitude. Plato's ( 2011 : 202b) Symposium defines philosophy, love of wisdom, as “a mean between ignorance and wisdom.” For “no god pursues wisdom or desires to be wise because gods are wise already, and no one who is wise already pursues wisdom. But neither do ignorant people pursue wisdom or desire...

... illumination (the visione dei , the vision of God) that conditions all forms of human sight as merely “relational,” the famous “God’s eye view” of the philosophers, emerged in a conception of being as light and knowledge as sight. In this way I will suggest that the key thinker “behind” the Virilian oeuvre...

...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young Rather than decoding Wotan as a “puzzle made up of rebel and god, mythology and bourgeois society” (Adorno 1981 : 133) or, even worse, as a “fake German revolutionary” such as “Marx had satirized” (134), the lord of the world has to be recognized...

... that Zeus, god of just government, a collective representation of the authority of society, intervene to restore order and good balance. When Apollo hauled Hermes before the court of the gods for stealing his oxen, Zeus was impressed by his trickery and had them settle their differences. Hermes gave Apollo...

... of technology, which are about making humans more like gods, in Stiegler’s Epimethean vision of history technology becomes a crutch to enable humans to survive in a world where they are at a competitive disadvantage to animals with claws, wings, and sharp teeth. Akin to Virilio, Stiegler (2009) takes up...

..., final revolution, the ultimate revolution that renders all future revolutions obsolete, a revolution such as the one that plays out at the end of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung , one that burns worlds, kills its own children, and puts all gods to rest. Given that we are dealing with Wagner...

... tablet, for instance, describes a king/god, Marduk, fighting with a “net” to take his enemies “captive” (tablet 4, lines 41–44). The desire for capturing, “to keep free men slaves” ( Xenophon 2013 : 1.34), is what Hiero cannot let go. Ancient Athenian thought related the concept of despotism...

... and the tower, and from there the people are scattered abroad to all lands, and the whole cycle begins again. The Tower of Babel stands for the archetype of the fascist form that collective life tends toward under the singular rule of Apollonian logocentrism: ein logos, ein langue, ein Volk . God's political...

... very acceleration. Hence the splitting of reality. We don't believe in it anymore. What I've called a mono-atheism is in the works. Let me explain: monotheism is a belief in one god; it is the Jews, the Christians, or the Muslims. Mono-atheism is a belief in nothing at all. It is not simply about...

... violence out of his lips, his eye, Unimaginable, god-like, To scholars, poets, and other men Who retreat, cower and wait for death, Instantaneous vaporization, And can barely understand The common soldier’s unbroken line, Their willingness to face the fire. At Saguntum, for example, They pushed...

... Green . 2003 . “ A Politics of Time and Space. ” Tikkun 18 ( 6 ): 17 – 20 . Kaplan Esther . 2004 . With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy and Democracy in George W. Bush's White House. New York : The New Press . King John . 2004...

... ambiguity, as Žižek notes, because there is a moment in the later Lacan in which this anonymous order becomes subjectivized. Žižek writes: The exemplary case is divinity: is what we call “God” not the big Other personified, addressing us as a person larger than life, a subject beyond all subjects? … What...

... conceived in the image of God; 2 similarly, the humanistic conception of death understood as decease (that is to say, analyzed from the anthropological, psychological, or biological standpoint) is based on an equally metaphysical theory of man – of man conceived as constant permanence or as constant...

..., the psychoanalytic family, comprising petite sculpted gods who also posed for Engelman's camera, unable to conceal the unease they felt at not knowing for sure where they would be sent when the removal van arrived. During its process of bringing to light, of revealing what was destined to remain hidden, Engelman's...