Political Demonology: The Logic of Evil in Contemporary Literature and Theology

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This conference brings philosophers of religion, political theorists and literary scholars together to frame approaches to the problem of political evil–a project one might call ‘political demonology’–for our contemporary political and cultural crisis. What or who is the political enemy? What is po…

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    • Sep 13, 2016 LATEST EPISODE
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    Shakespeare and Machiavellian Politics of Violence, Closing Keynote

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 37:44


    Closing Keynote: Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford) gives the closing keynote for the Political Demonologies conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.

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    The pessimistic anthropology of liberalism vs. the Good

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 25:00


    Adrian Pabst (University of Kent) gives a talk for Session 3: Demonologies of the Soul – Beyond Evil, part of the Political Demonologies conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.

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    Going Beyond Evil in Theory, Politics and Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 25:40


    Max Muir (University of Oxford) gives a talk in session 3 Demonologies of the Soul – Beyond Evil, part of the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.

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    ‘“Political Theology” or “Occasional Decisionism”? On the Formal Character of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology’

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 24:24


    Bruno Godefroy (Universities of Erlangen and Lyon) gives a talk in Session 2: Political (Dis-) Orders, part of the Political Demonologies conference held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.

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    The Dialectics of Individualism and Totalitarianism in Charles de Koninck, David Foster Wallace, and Michel Houellebecq

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 27:02


    Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. (Heiligenstift, Austria), gives the first talk in Session 2: Political (Dis-) Orders, part of the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.

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    Modernist Myths of the Fall

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 17:30


    Henry Mead (Teesside University) gives the third talk in Session 1, (Demono-) Logics, at the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.

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    The Two Deaths of Osama Bin Laden –Demonic Repetition in Contemporary Culture

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 22:05


    Tom Grimwood (University of Cumbria) gives the second talk for Session 1; (Demono-) Logics Political Demonology conference, held in Worcester College on 20th May 2016.

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    The Nightmare that Dreams: The Soul and Nihilism - Opening Keynote

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2016 53:42


    Conor Cunningham (University of Nottingham) gives the opening keynote in the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College Oxford on 20the May 2016.

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