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A weekly podcast uncovering the crypto-theological and para-political origins of capitalism, liberalism and secularism from a confessional Christian perspective. Video versions and the rest of our content here: https://www.youtube.com/@theopolitics/videos

Tyler Hamilton


    • Jan 16, 2024 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 10m AVG DURATION
    • 20 EPISODES


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    Theopolitics: The Politics of the Real

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2024 75:42


    Tyler is joined by a special guest, Catholic Philosopher D.C. Schindler, for a discussion of his work "The Politics of the Real". They discuss the essence of Liberalism as rejection of the Catholic Church, Unnatural Rights, Act and Potency, and the debate over Integralism.Purchase "The Politics of the Real" here:https://newpolity.com/new-polity-press-titles/the-politics-of-the-realFollow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThamsterFollow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBLOriginal Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusicThumbnail Art and Video editing by:Censored Anon:https://t.me/thecensoredanonreturnsTo Support us:https://linktr.ee/thamsterKo-fi.com/thamsterwitnat

    Theopolitics: Catholic Futurism

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 69:23


    Tyler is joined by Richard Storey for a discussion of Catholic Futurism, carrying forward Catholic Tradition past modernity into a bright future.Follow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThamsterMembers only episodes:https://rupture1.gumroad.com/l/theopolFollow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBL To Support us:https://linktr.ee/thamsterKo-fi.com/thamsterwitnat

    Theopolitics: Difference of Virtue, Virtue of Difference

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2023 59:07


    Tyler and Dorus discuss the return to antique philosophy and Virtue Ethics exemplified by the philosopher Alasdair Macintyre, John Milbank's theological criticism of Macintyre's project, and the idea of Virtue in Aristotle and Aquinas.Subscriber only episodes: https://gumroad.com/l/theopolThumbnail Art and Video editing by: Censored Anon:https://t.me/thecensoredanonreturnsFollow us on Telegram: https://t.me/thamsterEBLFollow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThamsterhttps://twitter.com/JeffersonLee86https://twitter.com/DisctTomCruisehttps://twitter.com/philosophy4fithttps://twitter.com/theopolitic

    Theopolitics: Pope Benedict XVI vs. Jurgen Habermas on the Future of Europe

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2023 66:31


    Tyler and Rory discuss the pivotal dialogue between Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Ratzinger) and Frankfurt alumni and philosopher of the European Union, Jurgen Habermas, on the future of Europe and the World. With the orienting discussion of "the pre-political foundations of the moral state" the two representatives of the religious and secular worldviews discuss the problem of plurality in global order, the failure of liberal democracy to accommodate anything other than the secular, the cultural imperialism of western rationality, the pathologies of reason and religion, and the need for bonds of social solidarity to navigate intercultural tension between the secular and the religious.Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/thamsterEBLFollow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThamsterhttps://twitter.com/philosophy4fit https://twitter.com/JeffersonLee86https://twitter.com/DiscntTomCruisehttps://twitter.com/juicedavisxThumbnail Art and Video editing by: Censored Anon: https://t.me/thecensoredanonreturnsOriginal Music by: https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusicTo Support us: https://linktr.ee/thamster Ko-fi.com/thamsterwitnat

    Theopolitics: Pope Francis & the Residential Schools

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2023 61:16


    Tyler is joined by Rory (Philosophy for Fitness) to discuss Pope Francis's visit to Canada for his Papal Apology over the Catholic Church involvement in the Canadian Residential School system. We discuss the "Mass Grave" hysteria and media blood libel, the real complexity glazed over by the popular narrative of the Church's involvement in the residential school system, the evil of the Canadian Government's intent to erase indigenous culture and create "the White Indian", and finally, we defend Pope Francis' statements made in Canada from critique by Right-leaning Catholics themselves.

    Theopolitics: Ontological Violence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2023 96:30


    Nearing the end of our series on Milbank's "Theology and Social Theory", we turn to the culmination of the genealogical excavation of modernity, securalism and liberalism. From the aporias of Liberalism culminating in Nihilist Ontology, a critical look is given to Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard and to the grand-daddy of them all, Friedrich Nietzsche. The Ontology of Violence throughout is juxtaposed with the uniquely Christian Ontology of Peace proposed by Milbank through an Augustinian lens.

    Theopolitics: Against Hegel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2022 100:38


    Tyler and Dorus continue discussing Milbank's "Theology and Social Theory", now turning to Theology and Dialectics. In this video, we take aim at the great German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Following with what in Hegel's work Milbank wishes to retain and that which he is against in Hegel, we explore the ways in which Hegel's critique of modernism not only does not go far enough but culminates in a story that leads to the same liberal State, underpinned by a blend of Kantian and Fichtean deontology within Boehme's gnostic trinitarianism. Against Hegel, we affirm the orthodox understanding of the Trinity and the Christ Event as a counter to Hegel's singular Protestant focus on the economic Trinity over the immanent Trinity and the heterodox dialectic that results from it.Subscriber only episodes:https://gumroad.com/l/theopolTo Support us:https://linktr.ee/thamsterKo-fi.com/thamsterwitnathttps://entropystream.live/thamsterwi...Follow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBL Original Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusic Intro Video by:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q5...

    Theopolitics: From De Maistre to Durkheim

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2021 99:22


    Continuing our series on Theology and Social Theory, we turn to an examination of work of the Catholic Reactionaries to unearth the origins of what became the secular social sciences through the work of August Comte and Emile Durkheim. Both a critique of De Maistre and De Bonald but also of the positivist founding of Sociology, the basis for reactionary thought today is both discovered as heterodox theology and critiqued as such.Subscriber only episodes:https://gumroad.com/l/theopolTo Support us:https://linktr.ee/thamsterKo-fi.com/thamsterwitnathttps://entropystream.live/thamsterwi...Follow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThammyhttps://twitter.com/theopoliticThumbnail and graphics by:https://twitter.com/NRxNazBolOriginal Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusic Intro Video by:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q5...

    Theopolitics: De Maistre, "On the Pope"

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2021 70:33


    Joel is guesting again this week. He and Dorus dive into De Maistre for a second time, discussing his magnum opus, 'Du Pape'. We also get to the recent Motu proprio issued by Francis, Vatican I, infallibility and the Petrine charism. Orthobro vs tradcath on the hottest issue of the day.Members only episodes:https://gumroad.com/l/theopolFollow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThammyhttps://twitter.com/theopoliticSupport our work:Ko-fi.com/thamsterwitnatpaypal.me/isidoreroyerhttps://entropystream.live/thamsterwi... Follow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBLLinktree:https://linktr.ee/thamster Original Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusic Intro Video by:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q5... Thumbnail and graphics by:https://twitter.com/NRxNazBol

    Theopolitics: Theodicy/Agonistics of Political Economy (Reading Milbank, 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2021 69:54


    yler and Dorus continue their series on John Milbank's "Theology and Social Theory", turning now to the foundations of Political Economy. Through an engagement with the Scottish Economists, the rejection of Christianity through heterodox theodicy and neopagan agonistics is exposed as the root of the modern sphere of economy.Subscribe to members only content:https://gumroad.com/l/theopolSupport the show:Ko-fi.com/thamsterwitnathttps://streamlabs.com/thamsterwitnatCrypto Donations:https://linktr.ee/thamsterFollow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThammyhttps://twitter.com/isidoreroyerhttps://twitter.com/theopoliticFollow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBL Original Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusic Intro Video by:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q5... Thumbnail and graphics by:https://twitter.com/NRxNazBol

    Theopolitics: Reading De Maistre

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2021 72:26


    Dorus and Joel break down the first chapters of Joseph de Maistre's 'Against Rousseau', which he wrote in the 1790s as he beheld his beloved France, bastion of Roman Catholicism and the ideals of divine monarchy, eat its children.Members only episodes:https://gumroad.com/l/theopolFollow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThammyhttps://twitter.com/theopolitichttps://twitter.com/joeldavisxSupport our work:https://Ko-fi.com/thamsterwitnathttps://paypal.me/isidoreroyerhttps://entropystream.live/thamsterwi... Follow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBLLinktree:https://linktr.ee/thamster Original Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusic Intro Video by:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q5... Thumbnail and graphics by:https://twitter.com/NRxNazBol

    Theopolitics: Theology and Social Theory (Reading John Milbank)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2021 60:10


    Tyler and Dorus start another multi-episode series on Theologian and Political Theorist John Milbank's controversial text "Theology and Social Theory". For the first episode, we discuss the construction of the secular through out the work of Hobbes, Grotius and Spinoza and its earlier theological justification in Nominalism and Voluntarism. Members only episodes:https://gumroad.com/l/theopolFollow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThammyhttps://twitter.com/theopoliticSupport our work:Ko-fi.com/thamsterwitnatpaypal.me/isidoreroyerhttps://entropystream.live/thamsterwi... Follow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBLLinktree:https://linktr.ee/thamster Original Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusic Intro Video by:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q5... Thumbnail and graphics by:https://twitter.com/NRxNazBol

    American Extremist: The Psychology of Political Extremism (with Josh Neal)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 73:37


    yler is joined by his old co-host and collaborator Josh Neal to discuss some lessons from Josh's recent groundbreaking book American Extremist. Published by Imperium Press, American Extremist takes a psychological look at how neoliberalism fosters anti-human tendencies and resentment fueled conflicts in order to usher in a new post-human future. Both reminiscent of critical psychoanalytic looks at culture and also critical of them, American Extremist offers a postmodern and postliberal psychology of the ills of neoliberalism.Order the book here:https://www.imperiumpress.org/​Follow Josh on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jnadcyn​https://gumroad.com/l/theopol​Follow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TylerThammy​https://twitter.com/isidoreroyer​Ko-fi.com/thamsterwitnathttps://entropystream.live/thamsterwi...​ Follow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBL​ Original Music by:https://soundcloud.com/k-millermusic​ Intro Video by:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Q5...​ Thumbnail and graphics by:https://twitter.com/NRxNazBol

    Theopolitics: Interview with Dr. William Cavanaugh

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2021 68:35


    Tyler and Dorus are joined by eminent Catholic theologian Dr. William Cavanaugh. We discuss more about Cavanaugh's background, the global implications of the myth of religious violence, the hidden ontological assumptions within democratic proceduralism, the myth of the East, ecclesial anarchism and civic transformation, the legacy of Carl Schmitt, and practice for Christian students and academics within indepedent social science spaces.Subscriber only episodes:https://gumroad.com/l/theopol​To Support us:https://linktr.ee/thamster​Ko-fi.com/thamsterwitnathttps://entropystream.live/thamsterwi...​ Follow us on Telegram:https://t.me/thamsterEBL​

    Theopolitics: Live AMA

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 106:53


    Tyler and Dorus take your questions live!Support the show with donations and follow us on other social media. All accesible on this link: https://linktr.ee/thamster

    Theopolitics: City of Mammon (MRV, Part 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 69:37


    Tyler and Dorus continue their series building on Cavanaugh's work on the Myth of Religious violence, turning to the concrete history of the rise of absolutism and the descent into the City of Mammon. Investigating the history of absolutist clash to creation of independent disciplinary spaces in the wake of Christendom, they discover the economic's elevation into the new queen of the sciences and the master narrative.Support the show with donations and follow us on other social media. All accesible on this link: https://linktr.ee/thamster

    Theopolitics: The Myth of Religious Violence (Part 1)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 76:28


    Tyler and Isidore discuss an important text by Dr. William Cavanaugh titled "The Myth of Religious Violence". We discuss the "myth of religious violence", that is, the concept of religion as a transcultural, transhistorical, tendency of humanity for irrational and blind faith, culminating in intolerance and war. This myth of religion is used at home and abroad to justify "secular" and "democratic" violence.Support the show with donations and follow us on other social media. All accesible on this link: https://linktr.ee/thamster

    Theopolitics: Against Macron

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 46:56


    Tyler and Dorus kick off the discussion with the relationship between the EU and China, the EU and the United States, and the Transatlantic alliance before turning to the main discussion. Looking towards France, they discuss the French Revolution, the religion of secularity, and Macron's liberal civilization-state plan.Support the show with donations and follow us on other social media. All accesible on this link: https://linktr.ee/thamster

    Theopolitics: Market Apocalypse

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 45:45


    Tyler and Isidore kick off the Theopolitics show with a discussion of some key events right at the start of 2021. They discuss the Biden administration and security apparatuses move to purge Trump supports and appointees out of civil service, the motion passed at the Canadian House of Commons concerning the Proud Boys, and the unveiling of the shrouded Market to the common man as exposed through the Gamestop stocks fun.Support the show with donations and follow us on other social media. All accesible on this link: https://linktr.ee/thamster

    Theopolitics: Inauguration

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2021 23:42


    In the inauguration episode of Theopolitics, Tyler and Isidore introduce the themes and topics of the new show. From political theology, to the mystical, to events and ruptures, to the apocalyptic, to the theopolitical.Support the show with donations and follow us on other social media. All accesible on this link: https://linktr.ee/thamster

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