...John Brenkman Just as Jürgen Habermas's dialogue with Cardinal Ratzinger shifted critical theory's stance toward religion, the dialogue between Gianni Vattimo and René Girard reveals tensions within philosophy's critical appropriations of Christianity. Vattimo draws on Heidegger and hermeneutics...

... in the United States alone, logging higher ratings of viewer and critic approval than even Game of Thrones . 55 86. Girard, La violence et le sacré , 45 . 87. See, e.g., Haraway, How Like a Leaf , 150 . See also Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium . Paradoxically, the ultimate...

... presence within the world of the text” and meta- phorical uses that apply spatial concepts to describe phenomena that are not spatial in nature (10–11). Regarding the third, metacritical dimension, she relies on Girard Genette, who, in turn, draws on Fer- dinand de Saussure’s concept of language...