scholarly journals VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND THE VARIETY OF RELIGIOUS FORMS

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-529
Author(s):  
Mark Knight
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Stanley Fish

Literary studies is not theonly discipline to show a new enthusiasm for religion in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. When Stanley Fish suggested back in 2005 that religion might become the new theoretical center of gravity in the humanities, his declaration was cited frequently and may have proved a little too convenient for those, like myself, who wanted to see a major theoretical realignment in the humanities’ attitude to religion. But, the reality is that Fish is just one of a number of other prominent theorists in the last twenty years or so to have shown a new appreciation for the theoretical resources that religious thought makes available. Although the term religion is understood very differently across thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Bruno Latour, Sabo Mahmood, Charles Taylor, and Slavoj Žižek, they share a refusal to accept crude notions of the secularization thesis, with its commitment to seeing religion as an irrelevance in the modern world, and are instead determined to see religion as more than just an antiquated ideology that needs to be unmasked.

Archaeology and the Letters of Paul

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Salah Nasrallah
Keyword(s):  
Judith Butler ◽  
First Century ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
Feminist Historiography ◽  
The Many ◽  
Political Economic

Through case studies of archaeological materials from local contexts, Archaeology and the Letters of Paul illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those whom the apostle Paul addressed. Roman Ephesos, a likely setting for the household of Philemon, provides evidence of the slave trade. An inscription from Galatia seeks to restrain traveling Roman officials, illuminating how the travels of Paul, Cephas, and others may have disrupted communities. At Philippi, a donation list from a Silvanus cult provides evidence of abundant giving amid economic limitations, paralleling practices of local Christ followers. In Corinth, a landscape of grief includes monuments and bones, a context that illumines Corinthian practices of baptism on behalf of the dead and the provocative idea that one could live “as if not” mourning. Rome and the Letter to the Romans are the grounds to investigate ideas of time and race not only in the first century, when we find an Egyptian obelisk inserted as a timepiece into Augustus’s mausoleum complex, but also of Mussolini’s new Rome. Thessalonikē demonstrates how letters, legend, and cult are invented out of a love for Paul, after his death. The book articulates a method for bringing together biblical texts with archaeological remains in order to reconstruct the lives of the many adelphoi—brothers and sisters—whom Paul and his co-writers address. It is informed by feminist historiography and gains inspiration from thinkers like Claudia Rankine, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Wendy Brown, and Katie Lofton.

scholarly journals Demanda: Literatura e Filosofia, de Jean-Luc Nancy

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Lock Farina
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jacques Rancière

Publicada originalmente na coleção “La philosophie en effet”, da prestigiada editora Galilée, na França em 2015, com o título Demande. Philosophie, littérature, a coletânea de textos de Jean-Luc Nancy, inédita enquanto tal e organizada por Ginette Michaud, professora da Universidade de Montreal, chega ao Brasil devido à iniciativa em parceria entre a editora da UFSC e a editora Argos, da Unochapecó. Nancy (1940-), professor emérito da Universidade de Estrasburgo, é certamente um dos filósofos mais conceituados no universo acadêmico atual, ao lado de Alain Badiou, Hélène Cixous, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Rancière. Seu destaque se dá sobretudo em função das contribuições acerca do político e da democracia, da obra em conjunto com Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, de seus escritos sobre Jacques Derrida e da preocupação constante em relacionar a arte de maneira geral com o pensamento filosófico. Sua produção, entretanto, é ainda pouquíssimo traduzida no Brasil. Na tarefa de suprir essa falta, Demanda: Literatura e Filosofia (365 p.) reúne textos de 1977 a 2015, disponíveis até então somente em periódicos ou resultantes de conferências e entrevistas, dando mostras da trajetória do autor no que concerne o debate entre o aproveitamento da literatura e do modo singular (a singularidade para Nancy é sempre uma singularidade plural) com que ela convoca a filosofia para um pensamento conjunto, crítico e afectante a respeito da vida, da atividade política e dos sentidos nas suas concepções mais amplas.

Words Fail

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
Spiritual Nature ◽  
Potential Failure

This book is concerned with matters of representation and failure, especially insofar as they indicate deep and often startling truths about the nature of spiritual and theological reflection. This volume turns to poets such as Celan, Wallace Stevens, Adrienne Rich, Giovanni Pascoli and Giorgio Caproni because they are all poets who sought directly to enter into the struggle with oppression that takes place within language. They illuminate the tensions present within the failures of representation in a profound manner. The path this study of poetic struggle against oppression and representation takes is one that links these tensions with various contemporary continental thinkers whose work continues to highlight the vast philosophical and theological stakes at play within these poetic endeavors. There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Here, the book pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers, Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Giorgio Agamben—very much in that order—as prime examples of how modern poetry presents us with a profitable vantage point from which to survey these ongoing struggles of living in a highly fragmented (post)modern world. Alongside these thinkers, this book looks specifically at the form of ‘spirituality’ that is given shape by this intersecting of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection. Such a focal point takes shape in the author’s reflections on how poets’ and philosophers’ understanding of poetics and religious identity were offering rich suggestions about our “spiritual” nature.

scholarly journals Reflexiones filosófico-políticas en torno a la criminalización de las prácticas de solidaridad hacia migrantes y refugiados en la actualidad. El caso de Carola Rackete (2019)

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-240
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Penchaszadeh ◽  
Senda Sferco
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Giorgio Agamben

En este artículo ofrecemos un análisis filosófico político de un caso “ejemplar” de criminalización de la solidaridad hacia migrantes y refugiados en la actualidad: el caso de Carola Rackete, capitana del Sea Watch 3, que en 2019 protagonizó un salvataje enel Mediterráneo. Con base en desarrollos teórico-conceptuales de autores centrales de la filosofía contemporánea como Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Étienne Balibar y Jacques Derrida, buscamos abordar las contradicciones ético-políticas que conllevan hoy las prácticas de solidaridad hacia personas en situación de movilidad internacional. El manuscrito se encuentra divido en cuatro secciones: en la primera, analizamos el nivel jurídico del caso; en la segunda, abordamos la lucha jurídico-política en torno a la definición de “lugar seguro” y el problema del “tráfico de fronteras”; en la tercera, indagamos la cuestión de la personalización de las acciones solidarias como estrategia de despolitización del campo humanitario; y, en la cuarta, insistimos en la necesidad de reposicionar el alcance político del derecho humanitario hoy.

Denouement: World Politics, Systemic Leadership, and Climate Change

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Thompson ◽  
Leila Zakhirova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
World Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Climate Fluctuations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Historical Processes

In this final chapter, we conclude by recapitulating our argument and evidence. One goal of this work has been to improve our understanding of the patterns underlying the evolution of world politics over the past one thousand years. How did we get to where we are now? Where and when did the “modern” world begin? How did we shift from a primarily agrarian economy to a primarily industrial one? How did these changes shape world politics? A related goal was to examine more closely the factors that led to the most serious attempts by states to break free of agrarian constraints. We developed an interactive model of the factors that we thought were most likely to be significant. Finally, a third goal was to examine the linkages between the systemic leadership that emerged from these historical processes and the global warming crisis of the twenty-first century. Climate change means that the traditional energy platforms for system leadership—coal, petroleum, and natural gas—have become counterproductive. The ultimate irony is that we thought that the harnessing of carbon fuels made us invulnerable to climate fluctuations, while the exact opposite turns out to be true. The more carbon fuels are consumed, the greater the damage done to the atmosphere. In many respects, the competition for systemic leadership generated this problem. Yet it is unclear whether systemic leadership will be up to the task of resolving it.

scholarly journals Religion at Play

Pneuma ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Vondey
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Secular World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Age

Abstract Pentecostals do not fit the dominant narrative of a secular age constructed by Charles Taylor. Instead, Pentecostalism is a religion at play that engages with the secular without accepting its authority. A critical dialogue with Taylor’s foundational proposal of the central conditions of premodern life that have made room for our modern secular world demonstrates how and why these conditions are not met in Pentecostalism. The article then identifies the alternative mechanisms in place in Pentecostalism as a form of religion at play manifested in an enchanted worldview, sociospiritual attachment, the festival of Pentecost, the transformation of secular time, and a porous cosmos. A close examination of the notion of play in Taylor’s narrative illuminates in more detail the ill fit of Pentecostalism in the history of a secular age and reveals that Pentecostalism represents a condition of religion that resolves the tension between sacred and secular and that challenges the dominance of “secular” and “religious” as uncontested ideas of our modern world.

scholarly journals "NINGUÉM ESQUECE UMA COISA DESSAS": PROBLEMATIZAÇÕES SOBRE PARRICÍDIO E HOSPITAIS DE CUSTÓDIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcele de Freitas Emerim ◽  
Mériti de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Giorgio Agamben

Resumo O considerado inimputável é absolvido por não entender o caráter ilícito de seu ato, embora, por medida de segurança, seja internado compulsoriamente em um hospital de custódia e tratamento psiquiátrico (HCTP): uma instituição pertencente ao sistema penitenciário. Cria-se assim a ambígua figura dolouco infrator - ora criminoso, ora doente mental - que raramente vimos contemplada em discussões e ações nas áreas da saúde e do direito. Ainda menos acolhido será aquele que atentar contra a vida de seus genitores: o chamado parricida. A partir dos aportes teóricos de Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Derrida, este trabalho discute discursos e práticas que se debruçam tanto sobre a questão da loucura, da infração e do parricídio quanto sobre a instituição do HCTP como modalidade de contenção e encaminhamento para os inimputáveis; assim como serão apresentadas discussões a partir das falas de pessoas classificadas como loucas, infratoras, parricidas - internadas em um HCTP.

scholarly journals Konstytucjonalizm wobec „zemsty postmodernizmu”

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Adam Sulikowski
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
Constitutional Discourse

CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE „REVENGE OF POSTMODERNISM”The main purpose of this article is to discuss the current situation of constitutional discourse as aresult of „Revenge of postmodernism”. This „Revenge” shows itself in taking over the methods of the leftist critique of democratic institutions by the radical right. This „Barbarization” of subtle methods of left-wing criticism leads to far-reaching consequences unforeseen by its founding fathers — Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida or Judith Butler. The author, using various theories formulated by Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau and Artur Kozak, seeks to explain this phenomenon and to show its implications for the future evolution of the constitutional discourse.

scholarly journals Deconstrucción y biopolítica. El problema de la ley y la violencia en Derrida y Agamben

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (212) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Damián Pereyra Tissera
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Giorgio Agamben

En este artículo, el autor analiza el modo como Jacques Derrida y Giorgio Agamben entienden la relación entre la justicia, el derecho y la violencia y explora las razones de los desacuerdos que mantiene cada enfoque –deconstrucción y biopolítica, respectivamente– en la comprensión de los conceptos antes mencionados. Sin desconocer las diferencias, propone, además, que el desacuerdo entre deconstrucción y  biopolítica no impide encontrar puntos de contacto entre dos autores que abordan el problema de la justicia desde una perspectiva pos-fundamentalista. Finalmente, concluye que deconstrucción y biopolítica están enfrentadas pero no en términos de una oposición pura o tajante.

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