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Kirill Chepurin

Kirill Chepurin is senior lecturer in philosophy at HSE University, Moscow. He has published on German Idealism and Romanticism, 19th-century Russian thought, utopia, and political theology. His co-edited volume (with Alex Dubilet), Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology, is out with Fordham University Press. His current projects explore the logics of bliss or beatitude in Schelling and Romanticism, and in modernity more broadly, as well as the concepts of the planetary and the cosmic in Romanticism and beyond.

Essays

Quentin Meillassoux

Meillassoux’s thinking of post-Copernican cosmic immanence and cosmic delegitimation constitutes a challenge to political theology as still predominantly Ptolemaic in its assumptions and focus

Pussy Riot and the Church

This piece is from the Political Theology Network archives originally posted on August 23, 2012.

In Memoriam: Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?