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7"To Be on Fire for Justice": James Cone's Legacy and Cornel West's Prophetic Commitments to Liberational-Theological Social JusticeIn Masood Ashraf Raja & Nick T. C. Lu (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice, Routledge. pp. 209-221. 2023.
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15Between Activism, Religiosity, and the Public Sphere: The Intellectual Insurgency of bell hooksJournal of African American Studies 23 (3): 187-202. 2019.In the collaborative project Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991) with Cornel West, when interviewing West, bell hooks traces “the roots of (her) own critical consciousness” to her early experiences in the Black church and with religion in general, to the extent that her role as an intellectual is predicated on “spiritual practice.” It is through this practice that hooks perceives her role as an intellectual as one that “links religiosity to solidarity with the poor,” in a me…Read more
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338Through enacting what she refers to as “a postmodernism of resistance,” bell hooks works out and works through a methodology of transgressive thought, through a radical rhetoric of feminist ideology. When mouthed, this radical rhetoric is significantly inaugurated in part by the well-known text, Ain’t I A Woman, but is also launched in particular ways by hooks’ lesser-known 1983 dissertation on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Sula. What becomes integral to hooks’ transgressive thought is a cr…Read more
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8Post-factum Studies in Trans-corporeal Rhetoric: Triangularities of Genre, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Kenneth Burke and Michel FoucaultDissertation, University of Texas at Arlington. 2022.This dissertation gives an account of and expands upon Stacy Alaimo’s term, “trans-corporeality,” in order to reconsider the rhetorical situation, through conceptualizations of how rhetorical bodies become embodied and traverse one another in various humanities. From “trans-corporeality,” what arises is a “trans-corporeal rhetoric,” which becomes an interdisciplinary rhetoric that speaks to the futures of rhetoric within the boundaries of various humanities, involving notions of embodiment, mate…Read more
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11The Philosophy of Christology: From the Bultmannians to Derrida, 1951-2002Wipf and Stock Publishers. 2022.Given the perpetual problem of the historical Jesus, there remains an ongoing posing of the question to and a continuous seeking of the meaningfulness of Christology. From the earliest reckoning with the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of faith, what it means to do Christology today remains at the methodological center of the task and scope of every systematic theology. Whether giving an account of Albert Schweitzer's bringing an end to the quest for the historical Jesus in…Read more
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23“The One Who Decides on the Exception”: The Sovereign and Sovereignty in Slavoj Žižek’s Political Theology after Carl Schmitt and Giorgio AgambenInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 15 (1). 2021.At the intersection of “the theological” and “the political,” the situatedness of the sovereign dictates the task and method of political theology. It is the sovereign, in particular, positioned between “the theological” and “the political,” that is responsible for existentializing what is theologized and what is politicized through the power of sovereignty. Through this sovereignty, the sovereign creates, defines, and oversees all the existential dimensions of a theological-political environmen…Read more
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9Heidegger and The Outsider, Savage Holiday, and The Long DreamIn Kimberly Drake (ed.), Critical Insights: Richard Wright: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access, Salem Press. pp. 56-71. 2018.Though, generally, it is often suggested that Richard Wright's The Outsider (1953) explicitly carries the label of an existentialist novel, Savage Holiday (1954) and The Long Dream (1958) are also invested in Wright’s approach to existentialism, since all three novels represent Wright’s attempts to translate Sartre’s French existentialism into Wright’s understanding of what a black existentialism would look like. That translation, for Wright, is not just about interpreted his meaning of “existen…Read more
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33Existential Theology: An IntroductionWipf and Stock Publishers. 2020.Existential Theology: An Introduction offers a formalized and comprehensive examination of the field of existential theology, in order to distinguish it as a unique field of study and view it as a measured synthesis of the concerns of Christian existentialism, Christian humanism, and Christian philosophy with the preoccupations of proper existentialism and a series of unfolding themes from Augustine to Kierkegaard. To do this, Existential Theology attends to the field through the exploration of …Read more
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5A Theologian's Guide to HeideggerWipf and Stock Publishers. 2019.A Theologian's Guide to Heidegger provides a uniquely theological introduction to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, by focusing on not just the relationship between Heidegger and theology, or even the nature of the discourse that must occur between theological concerns and Heidegger's philosophical errands, but by precisely exploring how theology can use Heidegger's philosophy as a means of outlining the scope and task of postmodern theology. To do this, especially with the postmodern theologi…Read more
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17Heideggerian Theologies: The Pathmarks of John Macquarrie, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich, and Karl RahnerWipf and Stock Publishers. 2018.In light of Martin Heidegger's contextualized influence upon theme, John Macquarrie, Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich, and Karl Rahner engage in theologies that, in their respective tasks and scopes, venture into existential theology, following Heideggerian pathmarks toward the primordiality of being on the way to unconcealment, or 'aletheia'. By way of each pathmark, each existential theologian assumes a specific theological stance that utilizes a decidedly existential lens. While the former certa…Read more
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20The Existential Demands of Race: Dialogues in Theological AnthropologyJournal of African American Studies 24 (2): 223-237. 2020.The existential demands of race speak to the necessity of conceptualizing what race is in conjunction with what it means to be human. Both meanings intersect epistemologically and phenomenologically, such that what race is informs what it means to be human as much as what it means to be human informs what race is. In this way, “blackness” becomes both the concept and the embodiment of what race is and what it means to be human. Theological anthropology presents a framework by which “what race is…Read more
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9The Question of the Meaning of Ágalma: Between Hermeneutics, Topology and Unconcealment—Commentary on Sessions IX and XIn Gautam Basu Thakur and Jonathan Dickstein (ed.), Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII: Transference. pp. 99-119. 2020.The focus of this commentary covering sessions IX and X is Alcibiades’s “entrance” into the symposium and what his late inebriated ingress brings to the discussion around love. Following the speeches delivered by Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, and Aristophanes culminating in the epistemological and mythological expressions of the meaning of love which are followed by speeches delivered by Agathon and Socrates focusing respectively on the rhetorical and the philosophical expressions of the mea…Read more
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25“Right Step (Albeit in the Wrong Direction)”: Žižek on Heidegger’s Nazism and the Domestication of NietzscheInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 14 (1). 2020.At a certain point in his in In Defense of Lost Causes, Slavoj Žižek suggests that, particularly with respect to Martin Heidegger's relationship with Nazism, Heidegger took "the right step." Not only does such a proposition provide a means to explain the direction Heidegger took in 1933 as it has been infamously pinpointed in his Rector's Address as the newly-inaugurated president of Freiburg, but it also becomes a means to explore Heidegger's turn towards Nietzsche by Winter 1936/1937 in a seri…Read more
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13Dialectics and Hegelian Negation in Slavoj Žižek’s Enjoy Your Symptom: Fighting the Fantasies of Trauma, Identity, Authority, and PhallophanyInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 13 (2). 2019.In Enjoy your Symptom, Slavoj Žižek’s notion of “trauma” is critical to understanding the scope and meaning of the “symptom.” This “symptom,” conceptually, is construed through the manner in which identity, authority, and phallophany come to bear psychologically on the meaning of being. Because of this, the definition of “symptom,” when viewed in a Heideggerian way, becomes an ontical representation of that which is oriented primordially. The symptom, as we experience it, is more than just at th…Read more
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22The Meaning of the Epistemological Situation: Reading Douglass Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed with Slavoj Žižek’s A Pervert’s Guide to IdeologyInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 12 (3). 2018.Douglas Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed presents a set of rules about how to navigate the contemporary, digital world, when considering the sentiments in the book’s subtitle “Ten Commands for a Digital Age.” To be sure, through how he outlines his understanding of the contemporary, digital world, Rushkoff proposes a hermeneutical exercise, dictating an understanding of the human situation. Similarly, Slavoj Žižek’s A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, as a film, aims to confront what is occurring …Read more
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