“At stake in our political life,” Paul Kahn observes, “has been not our capacity to be reasonable, but our capacity…
Political theology and political existentialism
philosophy
Religious and secular foundations of human rights
A post at the New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone" reflects on the differences between religious and secular underpinnings…
The politics of the atonement
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…
Paul Kahn’s roots
Paul W. Kahn's Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty is a compelling book, though compelling in…
Utopia now
Only when utopia is understood in the present continuous, as arriving without completion, can we make sense of the work…
The perspective of the common
In liberal theory, essence is privileged over existence, reason over will, and endless discussion over decision. In political theology, things…
The Theological and the Political
From Fortress Press, an interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of…
Is there anybody out there? (Pink Floyd and Charles Taylor)
In the Frankfurter Rundschau, Hartmut Rosa hears the echoes of Pink Floyd in the work of Charles Taylor.
Religion und Öffentlichkeit
The German translation, by Michael Adrian, of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere will be published by Suhrkamp…
“The Malaise of Modernity”: a radio series on the work of Charles Taylor
The CBC Radio program Ideas recently ran a five-part series on the life and work of Charles Taylor, "The Malaise…