Category Archives: foucault

Writing, Not Blogging (still more on religion and death)

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Tim McGee

Why do we adore The Slaughtered Ox? Because without our knowing it or wanting it, it is our anonymous humanity. We are not Christ, never Christ…no I will not speak of this. –H. Cixous I have not been blogging but … Continue reading →

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Telling History: Barth and Foucault

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Tim McGee

“History is a synthetic work of art.  History emerges from what has occurred, and has one single, unified theme.”  Karl Barth, __The Epistle to the Romans__, 146. People generally assume that “postmodernism,” whatever else it might be, is a suspicion … Continue reading →

Posted in barth, foucault, genealogy, history, milbank | 15 Comments