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Konturen: Vol 1 (2008)
Political Theology: the Border in Question
Konturen opens with a series of essays on the law of the limit between politics and religion. The question of this law today is of a piece with the broader contemporary problem of the border, threshold, or determining framework, because the modern, Enlightenment privatization of religion repeats and reverses itself as the politicization of privatized religion, and as a consequence the modern subject finds itself in the paradoxical situation of a radical limitation (or finitude) doubled by an equally radical limitlessness (or infinite capacity).
Recent Submissions
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Librett, Jeffrey S.
(University of Oregon, 2008)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lupton, Julia
(2008)
The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt, reviewed by Julia Reinhard Lupton.
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