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Yearsley, David
(2008)
J. S. Bach took many of his own vocal works conceived as tributes to earthly sovereigns and transformed them into glorifications of the heavenly King. Yet in contrast to the implications of some aspects of Luther's theology, ...
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Lupton, Julia
(2008)
The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt, reviewed by Julia Reinhard Lupton.
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Feldman, Leonard C.
(University of Oregon, 2008)
This article brings Carl Schmitt's Political Theology into conversation with John Locke's Second
Treatise of Government. Two fundamental issues are considered: the relationship between Locke's
theory of prerogative power ...
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McNulty, Tracey
(University of Oregon, 2008)
This paper evaluates the status and function of the border in the two polemics that bookend the long history of political theology: Paul’s polemic against the Jewish law, and Carl Schmitt’s critique of constitutional ...
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Gokberk, Ulker
(2008)
This paper explores the multifaceted discourse on Islam in present-day Turkish society, as reflected upon in Orhan Pamuk’s 2002 novel Snow. The revival of Islam in Turkish politics and its manifestation as a lifestyle that ...
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Shankman, Steven
(2008)
Renaissance perspective constructs objective reality from the viewpoint of a sovereign subject. The border protecting the sovereignty of this subject is sometimes crossed, in the Baroque, by means of the subject's sudden ...
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Breger, Claudia
(2008)
The paper analyzes recent German headscarf legislation in the context of early twenty-first-century
religious turns, that is, on the one hand constructions of “Islam/ism” as the newly dominant figure of
cultural difference ...
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Hohendahl, Peter U.
(University of Oregon, 2008)
The essay examines the pronounced theological turn of the late Carl Schmitt, especially in his Politische
Theologie II (1970). He aim is to understand what Schmitt meant by a “Catholic intensification” in the
relationship ...
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Librett, Jeffrey S.
(University of Oregon, 2008)
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Librett, Jeffrey S.
(University of Oregon, 2009)
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Frisk, Henrik; Weijland, Bart; Frisk, Henrik
(University of Oregon, 2009)
In this essay the first initiatives are presented to come to a new theoretical approach of musical improvisation. The main idea is to regard musical improvisation as a nonlinear dynamical system in which various (f)actors ...
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Kramer, Lawrence
(University of Oregon, 2009)
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thinking about musical aesthetics (a small but persistent strain in his writings) focused primarily on questions of demonstration and proper performance: how should this waltz or march sound? These ...
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Wheeler, Samuel C.
(University of Oregon, 2009)
At this point in the discussion, I am beginning to suspect that Livingston and I have different
conceptions of what Davidson’s “framework” is. I take it to be quite a bit more than the idea
that a theory of meaning is a ...
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Livingston, Paul M.
(University of Oregon, 2009)
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Mann, Bonnie
(University of Oregon, 2009)
Feminists, including this one, have two problems with nature: a special problem which is a historical and political problem, and an ontological problem that we share with everyone else (our metabolism with the earth). My ...
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Misselhorn, Catrin
(University of Oregon, 2009)
The fact that we develop feelings towards androids, i.e., objects with a humanlike appearance, has fascinated people since ancient times. However, as a short survey of the topic in history, science fiction literature and ...
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Livingston, Paul M.
(University of Oregon, 2009)
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Klebes, Martin
(University of Oregon, 2009)
The metaphysics of possible worlds proposed by the analytic philosopher David K. Lewis offers an account of fictional discourse according to which possible worlds described in fiction are just as real as the actual world. ...
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Livingston, Paul M.
(University of Oregon, 2009)
Within contemporary analytic philosophy, at least, varieties of “naturalism” have attained a widespread dominance. In this essay I suggest, however, that a closer look at the history of the linguistic turn in philosophy ...
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Wheeler, Samuel C.
(University of Oregon, 2009)
This essay argues that what Livingston calls the “structuralist” project, combined with a naturalistic,
external approach to language, does not in fact lead to a paradoxical failure to match lived language.
Quine’s ...
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