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Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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Queer Enfleshment, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Dec 2017

Queer Enfleshment, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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The Matter With Pantheism: On Shepherds And Goat-Gods And Mountains And Monsters, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Dec 2017

The Matter With Pantheism: On Shepherds And Goat-Gods And Mountains And Monsters, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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Lost Expectations: On Derrida's Abraham, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Dec 2017

Lost Expectations: On Derrida's Abraham, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein


This chapter undertakes a critical analysis of Jacques Derrida’s reading of Fear and Trembling (Frygt og Bæven) in The Gift of Death (Donner la mort). In a gesture that might be called a faithful betrayal, Derrida seeks in this text to “go further” than de Silentio, pushing Abraham’s singular near-sacrifice of Isaac into “the most common” experience of decision, his absolute relation to the Absolute into every relation to any other. Composed largely of anonymous fragments, the essay at hand evaluates the theo-ethico-political stakes of this deconstruction, seeking to re-read Derrida’s tout autre in light of …

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There Goes The Universe, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Apr 2015

There Goes The Universe, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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Review Of Karmen Mackendrick, Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions, Journal Of Religion 95:2 (267-9), Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Mar 2015

Review Of Karmen Mackendrick, Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions, Journal Of Religion 95:2 (267-9), Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

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The Lure Of Pan(En)Theism: Difference And Desire In _Divine Enticement_, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Dec 2011

The Lure Of Pan(En)Theism: Difference And Desire In _Divine Enticement_, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This response to Karmen MacKendrick’s work follows the thematic trail of desire through Divine Enticement (2012), seeking to clarify the relationship in MacKendrick’s work between God and creation. While MacKendrick expresses an initial desire for an "immanent divine," especially in relation to the work of St. Augustine, she later feels more drawn to "a world that in its beauty calls out the name of its creator" than to a world "in which the creator is simply present." This brief engagement explores MacKendrick’s logic of seduction in relation to the panentheist and pantheist theologies of Cusa and Bruno, ultimately suggesting that …

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One Way Up Through The Way Back Into The Out Of Ontotheology (Powerpoint), Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Oct 2011

One Way Up Through The Way Back Into The Out Of Ontotheology (Powerpoint), Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This is the powerpoint presentation associated with the lecture whose video can be found at http://condor.wesleyan.edu/openmedia/upub/video/lectures/fall2011/theory/theory_10_05_11.m4v. Please see the text version above, if it would be helpful.

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One Way Up Through The Way Back Into The Out Of Ontotheology, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein Sep 2011

One Way Up Through The Way Back Into The Out Of Ontotheology, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

This is the text of the lecture whose video can be found at http://condor.wesleyan.edu/openmedia/upub/video/lectures/fall2011/theory/theory_10_05_11.m4v. Please also see the powerpoint presentation, posted below.

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