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Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series
In this celebrated work, Agamben provides a delicate and complex interweaving of his views on a wide range of themes including sovereignty, and the state of exception, the …
Haunted Words, Haunted Selves
We are all haunted by things we fear, repress, and those things of which we have no conscious knowledge. We are thus haunted by a variety of "ghosts" in our lives so that, at …
The Challenge of God
In view of the double vocative that characterizes the relation of Creator to creature, this book offers critiques of modern and postmodern philosophy for the ways in which they …
Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer Series
Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why Agamben's Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of …
Agamben and the Existentialists
Introduces Agamben as an existentialist figure who takes the philosophy in a startling new direction Reveals the atheistic underbelly of Agamben's political theology Opens new …
Words Fail
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. Words Fail …
Theology as Autobiography
Autobiographical writings on faith frequently come from the lives of ordinary persons whose struggles with faith are often lived at the margins of the church, academy, and society. …
Walter Benjamin and Theology
In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is "e;related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it."e; For a thinker so …
Between the Canon and the Messiah
Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental …
Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
This book aims to put modern continental philosophy, specifically the sub-fields of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, deconstruction, critical theory and genealogy, into …
Fetish of Theology
By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object's role as a philosophical and religious …
Haunted Words, Haunted Selves
We are all haunted by things we fear, repress, and those things of which we have no conscious knowledge. We are thus haunted by a variety of "e;ghosts"e; in our lives so …