Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Doing Theology in the Age of Trump

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“An unfortunately crucial collection of bold essays that assail the white Christian nationalism of our terrifying times and offer counter-political theologies of the multitudinous, the minoritarian, and the earthly.”

Passion for Nothing

Philosophy

“Wide-ranging, well-crafted, and often playful, Peter Kline’s Passion for Nothing reads the Kierkegaardian corpus through the neglected lens of the apophatic. Speaking deftly of the unspeakable, Kline finds in Kierkegaard and the pseudonyms a recapitulation of Eckhart and an anticipation of deconstruction by uncovering numerous underattended threads throughout the authorship. These include excess, expenditure, abandon, and most notably, reduplication—the movement by which God withdraws from all objectivity, and the human from any sort of selfhood. Unlike a great deal of Kierkegaardian scholarship, this seems to me a book that Kierkegaard would not hate.”

The Theological and the Political

Theology

“In this haunted, haunting journey through poetry, philosophy, and political theory, Mark Taylor reimagines 'the theological' as a practice irreducibly concerned with human suffering. A much–needed negotiation of political, liberationist, and philosophical strategies, this book operates in the 'ruins of transcendence,' where thinking is embodiment and interpretation survival—perhaps even transformation.”