Noreen Khawaja and Nancy Levene, authors respectively of the recently published books, The Religion of Existence and Powers of Distinction,…
Practices of relation: Khawaja and Levene
philosophy
Prayer to no end
Sightings of a bridge between philosophy and religion by way of cognitive technē are among this book’s most exciting contributions.…
Devout death
Marno's argument about the philosophical import of holy attention puts death in a curious position. Death becomes a cognitive problem…
The stakes of attention
When we think of the ways of “generating an experience of full attentiveness” in devotional contexts we often tend to…
More immanence, more Gods
The apparent battlefield is an old one, and the separation of philosophy from theology has a long history. Philosophy, in…
Lucretius and the immanence of motion
Lucretius was the first philosopher of immanence. It is he and not Democritus or Epicurus who holds this title.
Josef Sorett and the idea of a racial aesthetic
Josef Sorett’s Spirit in the Dark is a marvelous book, not least of all due to its meticulous, incisive, and…
Questioning territory: A Jewish reflection on holy land*
Thinking of territory as a patrie, a motherland or homeland, makes use of metaphors that hope to capture a primal…
Law and truth in the German religious constitution
It is a widely held view that the juridical and political management of religion should be grounded in fundamental normative…
CFP: Working with A Secular Age
On March 6-8, 2014, the University of Bern will host an international conference entitled "Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Charles…