Penulis: Colby Dickinson

In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultu …

There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the writing …

One of the many challenges for readers of Agamben’s sprawling and heterogeneous body of work is what to make of his increasingly insistent focus on theology. Agamben’s Coming Philosophy brings togeth …

This book aims to put modern continental philosophy, specifically the sub-fields of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, deconstruction, critical theory and genealogy, into conversation with …

This book blends historical, theological, and philosophical inquiries into what ‘;modernity’ means with the aim of showing how Newman can analyze, critique, and explain fruitful ways forward within a …

In view of the double vocative that characterizes the relation of Creator to creature, this book offers critiques of modern and postmodern philosophy for the ways in which they have separated philoso …

From the mid to the late 20th century various French thinkers have at times toyed wth the label of ”the saint”, applying it to friends, colleagues, the revered nd even the worshipped such as Genet, …

This book provides a view of the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in relation to his own most basic theological premises and the discipline of theology. …

By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object’s role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest …

Autobiographical writings on faith frequently come from the lives of ordinary persons whose struggles with faith are often lived at the margins of the church, academy, and society. Yet these voices h …

The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben is not usually seen as an existentialist philosopher. But now, this volume shows how his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes i …

The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben is not usually seen as an existentialist philosopher. But now, this volume shows how his work creatively repackages important existentialist themes i …

In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is "related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it." For a thinker so decisive to critical liter …

There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the "thing itself" beyond representation. Words Fail pursues t …

La filosofía continental contemporánea gira en torno a determinados temas apocalípticos, ofreciendo nuevas intuiciones y propuestas sugerentes para que la teología reflexione en las implicaciones de …

Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why Agamben’s Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. …

Requiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson provides a guide to understanding why Agamben’s Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. …

Colby Dickinson proposes a new political theology rooted in the intersections between continental philosophy, heterodox theology, and orthodox theology. Moving beyond the idea that there is an irreso …

Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter …

Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter …

This book provides a view of the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in relation to his own most basic theological premises and the discipline of theology. …

From the mid to the late 20th century various French thinkers have at times toyed wth the label of ”the saint”, applying it to friends, colleagues, the revered nd even the worshipped such as Genet, …

Colby Dickinson proposes a new political theology rooted in the intersections between continental philosophy, heterodox theology, and orthodox theology. Moving beyond the idea that there is an irreso …

We are all haunted by things we fear, repress, and those things of which we have no conscious knowledge. We are thus haunted by a variety of ‘ghosts’ in our lives so that, at times, we might notice t …