Saturday, June 20, 2009

"These things are old": A genuine “theologico-political” phenomenon

Obama represents and epitomizes—perhaps more than any other presidential candidate or political leader in the Western world—such a post-secular as well as post-multicultural and post-identitarian form of politics, whose operating concepts and fundamental categories we have not yet fully gauged.



A friend just forwarded me this article by Hent de Vries of Johns Hopkins Univerity.

I find it very thoughtful and provocative, and would like to recommend it to Leaves readers.


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