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Daniel Conway

Daniel Conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Affiliate Professor of Film Studies and Religious Studies, and Courtesy Professor in the School of Law and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University (USA). He lectures and publishes widely on topics in post-Kantian European philosophy, political theory, aesthetics (especially film and literature), critical theory, philosophy of religion, and genocide studies.

Essays

Death, Incorporated: Redemption for the Rest of Us

In the post-secular world [Dick] envisions, religion has fully capitulated to the allure of the marketplace. As these perky commercials are meant to indicate, Dick expects humankind, circa 1992, to seek (and find!) redemption not in its devotion to (and fear of) otherworldly deities, nor in the afterlives these deities gatekeep for their favorites, but in its reverence for nifty consumer wonder products: beer, brassieres, plastic wrap, razors, etc.