Leopards and Invisible Calculators: Violent Incorporation, Political Theology, and Kafka's Leopards in the Temple
This essay reads Kafka's aphorism The Leopards in the Temple together with some of the concerns of political theology to think about visibility and agency, the sacred and the profane, the violence of incorporation, and the field of political theology itself. Methodologically, it brings litera...
| Published in: | Political theology |
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| Subtitles: | Roundtable discussion: Political theology of literature |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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| In: |
Political theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kafka, Franz 1883-1924
/ Aphorism
/ Leopard
/ Temple
/ Incorporation
/ Violent behavior
/ Political theology
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion CG Christianity and Politics TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Agency
B Literature B Violence B Kafka B Agamben B Sacred B Power |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This essay reads Kafka's aphorism The Leopards in the Temple together with some of the concerns of political theology to think about visibility and agency, the sacred and the profane, the violence of incorporation, and the field of political theology itself. Methodologically, it brings literary studies and political theology into richer engagement without consuming one into the other, either as mere illustration or as gloss. The condensed power of Kafka's aphorism draws us right into the midst of questions about the dangers of consumption and incorporation, as well as the possibilities for meaningful interaction between these fields of study. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1513062 |