Monthly Archives: September 2010

Beyond a Common Ground: Levinas, Fanon, and Touching the Other

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Tim McGee

“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it.  It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which … Continue reading →

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Post-nationalistic Theology and Fictive Christian Ethnicity

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Tim McGee

There was recently a discussion at the Inhabitatio Dei blog about whether “postliberalism” was a defined and coherent school of thought.  Instead of searching for the commonality within one stream (“postliberalism”), I am interested in looking at a trajectory which … Continue reading →

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On Milbank’s Imperialist Refusal of Difference

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Tim McGee

From the AUFS blog I saw that John Milbank has recently attributed the problems of “political Islam” to “the lamentably premature collapse of the Western colonial empires (as a consequence of the European wars);”  This should surprise no one, as … Continue reading →

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