The sexual and theological ethics of gay marriage in France: a dialectic between autonomy and universalism [PDF]
The debate on gay marriage has gathered pace globally and particularly in France. Here, the secularization of marriage as an ‘acte laïque’ has furthered progress towards a political and juridic recognition of gay marriage.
McCaffrey, E
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Immanent Critique in Political Education: Indoctrination or Emancipation?
ABSTRACT This article assesses whether critical political education, which immanently criticizes society, is able to avoid the challenge of indoctrination. For this purpose, the article reconstructs premises of critical political education, contemporary theories of immanent critique, and criteria of indoctrination.
Antti Moilanen
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Daigidan: The Great Ball of Doubt
In some forms of Zen Buddhism, the aspiring student is given a problem to solve, whether it be a paradoxical koan, a probing question about the self, or some personal dilemma to which there appears to be no answer.
Peter Timmerman
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Topological Theory in Bioconstructivism [PDF]
In the essay “Landscapes of Change: Boccioni’s Stati d’animo as a General Theory of Models,” in Assemblage 19, 1992, Sanford Kwinter proposed a number of theoretical models which could be applied to computer-generated forms in Bioconstructivism.
Hendrix, John S
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze as interpreters of Henri Bergson [PDF]
In this essay I concentrate on the relation between Deleuze's philosophy and Merleau-Ponty's. I examine the question of whether their philosophical projects are as widely divergent as Deleuze wants the reader to believe.
G. Deleuze +9 more
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An analysis of Matthew Fox’s mystical immanence [PDF]
The key objective of this research is to explore Matthew Fox’s mystical immanence, as developed in his panentheistic Creation-centred theology. Focussing on the key theme in his thought, the relationship between prayer and social justice, this thesis ...
Evans, Joan D.
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'But Following the Literal Sense, the Jews Refuse to Understand': Hermeneutic Conflicts in the Nicholas of Cusa's De Pace Fidei [PDF]
In the midst of the De pace fidei’s imagined heavenly conference on the theme of the possibility of religious harmony, Nicholas of Cusa has Saint Peter acknowledge to the Persian interlocutor that it will be difficult to bring Jews to the acceptance of ...
Aleksander, Jason
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Religion and Political Form: Carl Schmitt’s Genealogy of Politics as Critique of Habermas’s Post-secular Discourse [PDF]
Jürgen Habermas's post-secular account is rapidly attracting attention in many fields as a theoretical framework through which to reconsider the role of religion in contemporary societies.
ANTONIO CERELLA +36 more
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What to make of the exception? A three-stage route to Schmitt’s institutionalism [PDF]
This article traces a developmental trajectory in Schmitt’s conception of law that brings out alternative conceptualizations of the exception. “Transcendence”, “immanence” and “integration” signify three different models to represent the relation ...
Croce, Mariano
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Reconsidering the substance of digital video from a Sadrian perspective [PDF]
The digitisation process is debated as video’s deficiency, where pixels are conceived as isolated fragments without an existential link to the source image.
Emadi, Azadeh
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