By Alistair Welchman
The liberal enlightenment in addition to the extra radical left have either commonly hostile faith as a reactionary strength in politics, a view culminating in an identity of the politics of faith as fundamentalist theocracy. yet lately a few thinkers-Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and particularly Simon Critchley-have started to discover a extra effective engagement of the spiritual and the political in which Read more...
summary: The liberal enlightenment in addition to the extra radical left have either frequently adverse faith as a reactionary strength in politics, a view culminating in an identity of the politics of faith as fundamentalist theocracy. yet lately a few thinkers-Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and specifically Simon Critchley-have started to discover a extra efficient engagement of the non secular and the political within which faith beneficial properties as a potential or perhaps precious type of human emancipation. The papers during this assortment, deriving from a workshop hung on and with Simon Critchley on the Unive
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But part of Chanter’s point is to highlight the extent to which it is theatrical re-productions of Antigone that have made its political stakes explicit, where the philosophical tradition is still entangled in the dialectic between love and law—religion and politics—albeit in a way that complicates their relation and refuses any simplistic subordination of love to law: following Critchley’s understanding of faith as essentially performative, Chanter traces the efficacy of tragedy itself back to its performances.
F. Hegel, Hegel’s Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art . Trans. M. Knox. 2 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988). F. Hegel, Vorlesungenüber die Ästhetik . Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft (Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 1970 [1835–1838]). Basic Problems Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology . Trans. Albert Hofstadter (Bloomington/Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988 [1927]). Being and Time Martin Heidegger, Being and Time . Trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962 [1927]).
The Gay Science Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science . Trans. Bernard Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 [1882]). Kants Werke Kants Werke: Akademie-Textausgabe . , 28 Vol. 1900 ff. References will be to named text and volume and page number, except for the Critique of Pure Reason , which will be referenced in the standard A/B format giving the page number of the first (1782) and second (1787) editions. Letter John Locke, A letter concerning toleration. In John Locke: The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration , ed.