…one thing that Protagoras wanted to persuade people about, namely improvement. From the point of view of ancient Greek politics, this is all that can be done: We can strive…
…salutary insights was that political theology only holds us in its grip if we bring to politics an expectation of metaphysical or ‘eternal’ peace of a sort that worldly politics…
…but let’s stop kidding ourselves about the idea that there is a clear and straightforward and unlibidinal socialist politics and then there’s the bad socialist politics that gets caught up…
…India. The apolitical rationale is normally explained through the sacred/profane dichotomy. The perceived distraction and sullying interference that any mundane activity, like politics and social activism, could potentially have on…
…and action. Seva invariably strikes notes of religiosity in everyday politics, even in forms that actively interrogate and challenge the centrality of religion in Indian social life. Seva thus lends…
…do with politics as it does religion, but if you ask many conservative Christians they will tell you that they do not talk about politics in church. “Politics” are seen…
…fulfillment of moral goods or the cultivation of human flourishing. To pursue moral goods through politics and insist that politics is a realm of virtue paradoxically corrupts politics. Within such…
In his address to the United States Congress in September, Pope Francis said, “Politics is . . . an expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order…
The Thatcher Legacy and contemporary politics There is something very odd about the way that “the Thatcher legacy” is currently being portrayed in the UK press and seems to be…
…us our final attitude toward life. Politics is not immune to despair. The politics of despair has much in common with the second type of despair discussed here, that of…
…more extreme and overt forms of the dominance politics of the Gentiles that Jesus describes. Self-advancement and domination of others remain fundamental themes in our politics. Even where the language…
…own complicity in the violence of the systems we benefit from. Jacques Rancière: Help in understanding the significance of protest When I ask my students to define “politics” they often…