How could a human invention hold such sway over us as a people? Garry Wills argues that the gun is, for…
One nation under Gun?
political theology
Hosanna-Tabor in the religious freedom Panopticon
Michel Foucault famously describes Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon as a “cruel, ingenious cage” to be understood not as a “dream building…
After the secular age
Just out from Verso Press, Simon Critchley's The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology investigates the role of religion in…
There is Power in the Blog: Paul W. Kahn
There is Power in the Blog is hosting an eight-part discussion on Paul W. Kahn’s recent book Political Theology: Four…
A response to critics
I knew that my new book, Political Theology, would be controversial. It covers a lot of ground; it produces odd…
Jürgen Habermas on myth and ritual
This video is an excerpt of a lecture by Jürgen Habermas, delievered at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and…
CFP: Sovereignty, Representation and Authority
Pléyade, a biannual journal of Political Science published by the Centro de Análisis e Investigación Política, has issued a call…
Not for the squeamish
Paul Kahn has written a remarkable meditation on Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology. A truly adequate response would undoubtedly require a…
For a new migration of Abraham
At a moment when some of the theoretical gestures being inspired by old, new, or futuristic political theologies have become…
Democracy under exception
I agree with Kahn (and with Schmitt) about the fact that political theory should leave room for decision and exception.…