...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...

... Judith . 1984 . Ordinary Vices . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Strange Susan . 1997 . Casino Capitalism . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Taussig Michael . 2006 . Walter Benjamin’s Grave . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Vattimo...

... cannot be reduced to a simple discontinuity, as both scholars speculate, but it also indicates that a thesis along Löwithian lines might still be viable for those scholars in the field of postsecularism, such as Gianni Vattimo, who wish to explore the purported continuity between Christianity...

... of efforts—by Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Gianni Vattimo, and Jean-Luc Marion, and before them Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Lévinas—has become manifest to no longer conceive religion as the “other” of European modernism: no longer as an ide- ology or apogee of metaphysics, hence what Martin...