Political Theologies in the Era of Immanence
In our so-called “postmodern” age of widespread ideological critique, the correlation between transcendence and immanence proves increasingly problematic. Historically mediated phantasmagoria of state, nation, ‘the people’ and religious belief can no longer pretend to be part of the basic structures of reality. Their dogmatic form is revealed as contingent and self-made and the insight – trickling down into modern common sense – paved the way for a culture of diversification. The latter, though, helped also reactionary and conservative political movements to rise. How can they be understood and dealt with? And how are phenomena like the authoritarianism of right-wing populism to be interpreted in the horizon of political theology? Are these political movements in combination with fundamentalist forms of religion less a reactionary phenomenon than a symptom of a political awakening? These and similar question will be discussed at this international conference as it looks out for new forms of political theology in our current age of immanence.
Among the speakers are Thomas Bedorf, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Oliver Marchart, John Milbank, Clemens Pornschlegel, Joseph Vogl, Daniel Weidner et al.
Part 1 (May 2019):
Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2019
09.00 ̶ 09.15 Uhr
Begrüßung und Einführung
Rebekka Klein (Bochum) / Dominik Finkelde (München)
09.15 ̶ 10.15 Uhr
Kontingenz ertragen? Die Herausforderung der Demokratie
Oliver Flügel-Martinsen (Bielefeld)
10.15 ̶ 10.45 Uhr
Kaffeepause
10.45 ̶ 11.45 Uhr
Im Namen des Vaters? Gesetz – Geschlecht – Religion
Ino Augsberg (Kiel)
11.45 ̶ 12.45 Uhr
Liberalismus – antik und modern. Die Verteidigung der Demokratie mit Hannah Arendt und Leo Strauss
Thomas Meyer (Berlin/München)
12.45 ̶ 14.00 Uhr
Mittagspause
14.00 ̶ 15.00 Uhr
Trans and Cis. Identity Migration and the Decentering of Guilt Collectives
Luca di Blasi (Bern)
15.00 ̶ 16.00 Uhr
Three Concepts of Political Theology. On how (not) to Navigate Stuckness
Florian Grosser (California College of the Arts / Berkeley)
16.00 ̶ 16.30 Uhr
Kaffeepause
16.30 ̶ 17.30 Uhr
Smashing Words. Prophetic Modes and Alternative Political Theologies
Daniel Weidner (Berlin)
17.30 ̶ 18.30 Uhr
Universalität und Spaltung. Zur Paranoia als transzendentale Bedingung politischer Wahrheit
Dominik Finkelde (München)
Freitag, 10. Mai 2019
09.00 ̶ 10.00 Uhr
Stiftungen des Politischen. Öffnungen der reinen Immanenz
Thomas Bedorf (Hagen)
10. 00 ̶ 10.30 Uhr
Kaffeepause
10.30 ̶ 11.30 Uhr
Sklaven ohne Herrn. Goethes Faust als moderner Führer
Clemens Pornschlegel (München)
11.30 ̶ 12.30 Uhr
Keynote:
Apologie des Etatismus. Zur radikaldemokratischen Institutionentheorie am Beispiel von Armee und Tribunat
Oliver Marchart
Part 2 (October 2019)
THURSDAY, 24. OCTOBER 2019
09:00 – 09:15
Begrüßung und Einführung
Rebekka Klein / Dominik Finkelde
9:15 – 10:15
Souveränitätsfiguren in der Geschichte des
‚Finanzregimes‘
Joseph Vogl
10:45 – 11:45
Das Relative als das Absolute?
Das Politische zwischen
Kontingenz und Verkörperung
Philipp Stoellger
11:45 – 12:45
Meister, Väter und Surrogate –
mit Blick auf Autorität und
Vertikalität, Autoritarismus und
identitären Populismus
Burkhard Liebsch
14:00 – 15:00
Interrupting His Master‘s Voice.
Mythos and Logos in Political Theologies of the 20th Century
Marius Timmann Mjaaland
15:00 – 16:00
What does Spinoza‘s title
Theological Political Treatise
mean?
Dimitris Vardoulakis
16:30 – 17:30
Enmity as Cast Shadow of Love
Günter Thomas
17:30 – 18:30
„How Far“ Can a Democratic Order
Endure Future Transcendence?
Ferdinando Menga
FRIDAY, 25. OCTOBER 2019
09:00 – 10:00
„That things are ‚status quo‘ is the catastrophy.“ – The Necessity of an
Apocalyptic Political Theology
Jürgen Manemann
10:00 – 11:00
Performing Omniscience. A Political
Theology of Surveillance Culture
Hanna Reichel
11:30 – 12:30
From Less Than Nothing Towards a
Politics of Fictions and a Communal
Life Worth Living Beyond Masters
Johann Albrecht Meylahn
12:30 – 14:00
Keynote: John Milbank