Category Archives: Ethics

On Reading Schmitt II: Pluri-versality

Continuing on my reading of Schmitt‘s The Concept of the Political, I have a few comments. In section 6 Schmitt develops his notion of a pluri-versal world as opposed to a uni-versal one. Essentially, Schmitt refuses the idea of a global, uni-versal … Continue reading

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On Religious Tolerance in Rhode Island

The question of whether religion has a place in civic life has been a constant source of controversy since the emergence of modern liberal-democratic societies—since it was within them that this very notion of civic or public life first came … Continue reading

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Margin Call (2011), or a Report on the Banality of Greed

So far, few movies have been as successful as J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011) in portraying the events of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the movie achieves something only a few among the best films in history have … Continue reading

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On Reading Schmitt

I’m reading Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political. Although familiar with his ideas, I confess that I have never read this his most-influential work before. And… well, so far I still don’t like it. Everything makes perfect sense, yes! But … Continue reading

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Žižek, Bosteels y Buck-Morss sobre cristianismo, activismo y ética

Como parte de la conferencia Communism, a New Beginning?, Slavoj Žižek, Bruno Bosteels y Susan Buck-Morss se reunieron hoy en Cooper Union, Nueva York, para discutir la intersección de la ética, la religión y la política en el marco de la … Continue reading

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