In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn…
Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.
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"The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an important case study, on a global scale, of how democracy works - and fails to work - today. From leadership to citizenship, from due process to checks and balances, from globalization to misinformation, from solidarity within and across b…
Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy, love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith, remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, the author argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find t…
"Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy, love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith, remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, the author argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find …