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HENT DE VRIES which applies to a different sociological or cultural group: namely, the priests, the poets, and the philosophers. ...

INTRODUCTION Apart from the singular occurrence of the term in Spinoza, another modern articula- tion of the theologico-politica ...

HENT DE VRIES sovereignty, or of a democracy yet and forever to come (a`venir), which no longer fits the ancient or modern under ...

INTRODUCTION latter’s borrowings from other traditions of political reflection: paganism (beginning with Varro), Judaism, Islam, ...

HENT DE VRIES tion—central to Schmitt’s work—between friend and foe. Detienne starts out from the observation of concrete practi ...

INTRODUCTION veneration of gods such as Apollo and Hestia in the emergence and territorial organiza- tion of cities, including t ...

HENT DE VRIES werealreadyChristian and as if the modern conception of the political—until its ‘‘re- treat’’—had beenstillChristi ...

INTRODUCTION cal?) transcendence or self-transcendence of the immanent principle of the political is the legacy invoked by the s ...

HENT DE VRIES contrary, expresses itsanomalyin the very interruption of its gathering (orrassemblement) as such. Only thus, Nanc ...

INTRODUCTION church ‘‘cannot not be’’ or ‘‘never dies’’ (ecclesia nulla esse non potest,ecclesia numquam moritur). The exclamati ...

HENT DE VRIES this dual aspect of ideality and practicality, that is to say, of ‘‘two bodies,’’ whose mutual exclusionandaccommo ...

INTRODUCTION imaginary of sacredness, even in the most secular of its articulations—has more often than not been presented as in ...

HENT DE VRIES Time, hisEmancipation(s), and his illuminating contributions to the collective volume Contingency, Hegemony, Unive ...

INTRODUCTION In all of this Laclau is above all interested in how the mysticmodus loquendiand modus agendi(to use de Certeau’s t ...

HENT DE VRIES try (hence, in a sense, blasphemy, scandal, and conflict) would be the order of the day; indeed, only thus can we ...

INTRODUCTION not to religion in general but to the Christian religion, whose various manifestations we can identify without any ...

HENT DE VRIES The permanence of the religious, thus defined, is the transcendental illusion of the political: the ‘‘move toward ...

INTRODUCTION violence, albeit without being able to understand itself as a direct representation of that violence. They suggest ...

HENT DE VRIES the political, jurisprudence, and international law, as well as into the forms of individual and shared lives. In ...

INTRODUCTION nonviolent violence is that of a messianic-Judaic ‘‘divine violence.’’ In Butler’s summary: ‘‘Divine violence is un ...