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A remembrance of Paul Piccone considers his loss in terms of the aesthetics of the eucharist, focusing on the signs therein.

Explores the thought of Duns Scotus in shedding light on the "postmodern" phase of history. It is argued that Scotist thought set the stage for modernity, which raises the question as to whether Scotist innovations might contribute to a break in modernity. In this light, the origins & nature of modernity are reconsidered, linking Cartesian & Kantian innovations to shifts in Latin scholasticism. Scotus worked to level the finite & the infinite into a univocal being, a combination of the virtual & the discontinuous that leads to a radical break with rationalism. Scotus's impact on theology is examined, & his anticipation of postmodernity in theology demonstrated. In terms of the representation paradigm, Scotus is seen to have encouraged the tendency to logicize & semanticize metaphysics. While Aquinas begins to qualify metaphysics with logic in theology, Scotus also enhanced the logic & grammer therein, but took it much further. The question of whether postmodernity is more fundamental than modernity is taken up before engaging with Alain Badiou's thought vis-a-vis the ideas of Emmanual Levinas, Jacques Derrida, & Gilles Delueze. It is argued that it is ultimately illogical in both the application of philosophy & of theology to support the "postmodern" against the "modern" Scotus. L. A. Hoffman

Examines accounts of the Platonic dialogues to argue that they tend to overemphasize matter-spirit, body-mind dualisms. Recent scholarship indicates that Plato had his own way of valuing, & even glorifying, life in body, time, society, history, myth, mimesis, poetry, & ritual, rather than disparaging such physical mediations, as he is often accused of doing. Different understandings of Plato that emerged with neo-Platonism are described. It is noted that Plotinus moved away from matter to give greater importance to the realm of the soul, while Proclus & Iamblichus emphasized the descent of the spirit into the world of material multiplicity. However, recent scholarship ascertains that the Plotinian psychic & ascending interpretation of Plato must be accompanied by a Proclean doxological & descending interpretation. Examples from Plato's Republic are used to displace dualistic understandings of Plato & show why modern accounts tended to assume they were following an opposing trajectory. Changes in commonly made contrasts between Plato & Aristotle are suggested, & Anglo-Saxon analytic readings of Plato are critiqued. 1 Figure. J. Lindroth

Uses classical & current aesthetics theory to argue that analyzing liturgy serves as an effective route to understanding the problems of modernity, particularly the crisis of increasing social fragmentation. It is contended that modernity's refusal of liturgy, instead of generating secularization, creates a kind of perverse antiliturgical liturgy. Liturgy, because of its unique situation between the aesthetic & the political, represents a key to understanding the empty & fragmentary qualities of liberal individualization. Platonic readings of community are used to show how liturgy represents a political category because it fuses the realistic with the ideal. US capitalist society's near-religious refusal of liturgy defines the very structure of its cities (without cathedrals as center) & the very structure of its time (without a reflective hour in the day or a reflective day in the week). Modern society's use of spectacle to replace spiritual ceremony is also examined as a form of pseudo-liturgy. D. Bajo

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- part 1 Revolution and Theological Difference -- Tragedy and Revolution -- Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution -- The ''Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy'' -- Nothing Is, Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One -- Revelation and Revolution -- part 2 Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom -- Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology -- Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics -- Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money -- Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment -- part 3 Infinite Desire and the Political Subject -- The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence -- Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject -- Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual -- The Univocalist Mode of Production -- part 4 Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology -- The Commodification of Religion, or The Consummation of Capitalism -- The UnbearableWithness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anti-ontotheology -- ''To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough'': Violence and the Incorporeal -- The Two Sources of the ''Theological Machine'': Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror -- part 5 Theological Materialism -- Materialism and Transcendence -- Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes -- The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index