Tag: religion
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The Subversion of Morality: Reading Tang Wengming’s “Secret Subversion I: Mou Zongsan, Kant, and Early Confucianism.”
Works Reviewed. Tang Wenming Secret Subversion I: Mou Zongsan, Kant, and Early Confucianism. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. Routledge, 2022. Mou Zongsan (牟宗三 12 June 1909 – 12 April 1995) was a Chinese philosopher and translator who sought both to synthesize Kantian philosophy with the Neo-Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist traditions of China, but also to…
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Becoming Flesh: Jamieson Webster’s Conversion Disorder.
Works Reviewed. Webster, Jamieson. Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 303 pages. Psychoanalysis, ever since its Freudian genesis, has been plagued by a certain categorical ambiguity; it touches on, and is set against, medicine, philosophy, religion, psychology, psychiatry, self-help, literature and so on. This ambiguity lends, perhaps,…
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Geopolitics of Religion: Manlio Graziano’s Holy Wars & Holy Alliance.
Works Reviewed. Graziano, Manlio. Holy Wars and Holy Alliance: The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. The theme of a return of religion, particularly a return of religion to the domain of politics, has been the subject of a great deal of attention over the past sixteen years…