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Hosanna-Tabor In The Religious Freedom Panopticon, Peter G. Danchin

Peter G. Danchin

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Imagining Territories: Space, Place, And The Anticity, Jonathan Yovel

Jonathan Yovel

This essay explores the concept of "Territory" in some of its cultural forms, as well as looks into cultural and linguistic conditions for territories-talk. Initially, it engages territory as a pre-political representation and explores its formal relation to space and to place. It defines territory as the paradigmatic non-place and contrasts it with the concept of the city (in fact, an anticity), especially as reflected in renaissance and early modern art/architecture, with examples from Schedel, Bellini, Breugel and others, as well as from contemporary graphic works (Moebius, Qual, Nowak).

Moving from the cultural to the political, territories are then explored …

Auschwitz As Nomos Of Modern Legal Thought, Tawia B. Ansah

Tawia B Ansah

The article is at the intersection of law, philosophy, and political theology. I ask: in what sense is Auschwitz “central” to philosophy within late modernity? What does this centrality suggest for juridical thought? The article explores the status of the camp – as “paradigm” and as “nomos” of late modernity – within the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the reasons this status is refused by his legal critics, and the implications of both for late modern legal theory.

Auschwitz As Nomos Of Modern Legal Thought, Tawia B. Ansah

Tawia B. Ansah

The article is at the intersection of law, philosophy, and political theology. I ask: in what sense is Auschwitz “central” to philosophy within late modernity? What does this centrality suggest for juridical thought? The article explores the status of the camp – as “paradigm” and as “nomos” of late modernity – within the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, the reasons this status is refused by his legal critics, and the implications of both for late modern legal theory.