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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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Language, Otherness, and the Art of Struggle: A Dialogical Reading of the People of Babel
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Many have valued the story of Babel for its anthropological insights. However, what these might be has remained contentious. One of the most recent debates has concerned the nature of the people's sin. Where more traditional accounts have accentuated the severity of their actions and the finality of God's retributive response, other ...
Matthew D. Kirkpatrick
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The Humanity of Faith: Kierkegaard’s Secularization of Christianity
PhilosophiesThe nature and practice of Christianity is a major, if not the primary, topic in Kierkegaard’s authorship. What it means to live a Christian life is a persistent topic in many of his major works, and yet, he spends most of his authorship criticizing ...
René Rosfort
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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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Kierkegaard’s Lesson on Religious Conformism vs. the Current Mainstream Environmentalism
PhilosophiesThis paper aims to show how Kierkegaard’s attack upon Christendom still works today to contrast current forms of conformism disguised under the appearance of new secular religions.
Igor Tavilla
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KIERKEGAARD E O TRACTATUS: UMA BREVE ANÁLISE BIBLIOGRÁFICA
Kínesis, 2018 O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de expor e problematizar as interpretações de James Conant e Patricia Dip acerca das relações entre Kierkegaard e o Tractatus.
Wagner de Barros
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Genres of Paradoxical IS Theorising: Of Chaos–Puzzles and Spear–Shields
Information Systems Journal, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 901-923, November 2026.ABSTRACT Paradox is a powerful lens for theorising information systems (IS) phenomena. However, as scholars apply the term to fundamentally different phenomena, ‘paradox’ risks dilution. Much confusion stems from conflating two concepts under the same English label ‘paradox’: chaos–puzzles (seemingly impossible ideas, aligned with the Chinese term ‘bei
Blair Wang +2 more
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
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More Than One Encounter: Exploring the Second-Person Perspective and the In-Between
Open PhilosophyIn this essay, I explore the notion of the encounter as a challenge to the second-person perspective. I do so by turning to Jacques Derrida’s account of the encounter with the associated notions of address, second-person perspective, otherness, and the ...
Hansen Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel
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