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Informationen zum Autor Colby Dickinson is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of Agamben and Theology (T&T Clark, 2011), Between the Canon and the Messiah (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham University Press, 2016, as well as numerous articles on contemporary continental philosophy and theology. He is editor of The Postmodern 'Saints' of France (2013) and The Shaping of Tradition: Context and Normativity (2013). Klappentext In this book, Dickson and Kotso examine Agamben's more recent theologically-focused writing and its implications for philosophical thought. Zusammenfassung In this book, Dickson and Kotso examine Agamben’s more recent theologically-focused writing and its implications for philosophical thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments / Abbreviations / Introduction, Adam Kotsko and Colby Dickinson / / Part I: Agamben as a Reader of Benjamin / 1. On the 'Coming Philosophy', Colby Dickinson / 2. Reading the 'Critique of Violence', Adam Kotsko / 3. Gestures of Text and Violence, Colby Dickinson / 4. Citing 'Whatever' Authority, Colby Dickinson / Part II: Futures of Political Theology / 5. Immanence as Revelation, Colby Dickinson / 6. Agamben's Messianic Nihilism, Colby Dickinson / 7. The Divisions of Sovereignty, Colby Dickinson / 8. Perhaps Psychoanalysis?, Adam Kotsko / Part III: Methods, Economies, Theologies / 9. Genealogy and Political Theology, Adam Kotsko / 10. The 'Absence' of Gender, Colby Dickinson / 11. The Theology of Neoliberalism, Adam Kotsko / 12. Cur Deus Homo Sacer?, Colby Dickinson / 13. Paul and the Jewish Alternative, Adam Kotsko / 14. What is to be Done? The Endgame of the Homo Sacer Series, Adam Kotsko / 15. Conclusion: Finding a New Use for Theology, Colby Dickinson and Adam Kotsko / Bibliography / Index