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...

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Subtitles:Roundtable discussion: Political theology of literature
Main Author: Geddes, Jennifer L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
In: Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 7, Pages: 615-620
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 / Aphorism / Leopard / Temple / Incorporation / Violent behavior / Political theology
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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)