Clayton Crockett on the Deleuze/Badiou debate–Philosophy in the 21st Century

Introduction:  by Creston Davis The greatest living French philosopher, Alain Badiou, passionately articulates one of the most striking claims made in philosophy today.[1] This claim is as simple as it is radical:  Truth happens in a material event that fundamentally and irrevocably breaks with the status quo (or any logic articulated in terms of pure [...]

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Glenn Beck and Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus”: On Identifying Religious Fascism In Our Time

Glen Beck speaks for the entire Christian world, fancying himself a theologian of the ages, and maybe even the new Protestant super-pope or uber-preacher in last night’s episode of his show.  He speaks as a theologian on par with Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Thomas Aquinas but in the process interprets Christianity by means of [...]

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Zizek’s Preface to our Hegel Book (with Columbia University Press)

This preface will appear in Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic, edited by Zizek/Crockett/Davis…  To be published in 2011. Copyright (c) 2010 Columbia University Press. HEGEL’S CENTURY Slavoj Zizek The ultimate anti-Hegelian argument is the very fact of the post-Hegelian break: what even the most fanatical partisan of Hegel cannot deny is that [...]

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