The main aim of this article is to offer a sociological concept of crisis that, defined as the
expected yet non-lineal outcome of the internal dynamics of modern societies, builds on the …

An essentially contested notion, society is viewed by some as the most important level of
human reality, while others deny its existence outright. Taking the example of France …

Theorists of political theology and secularization have extensively analyzed interwar
European texts describing modern Western politics—and specifically the crisis of fascism …

Recent studies have identified the revival of the idea of democracy in early nineteenth-
century French thought. This article recovers one important reason behind this revival …

“Humanitarian”(humanitaire) came into use in French contemporaneously with the
emergence of romantic socialism, and in the context of the rebuilding of post-revolutionary …

Heraclitus is one of the greatest Ionian thinkers, who lived and flourished around the
beginning of the fifth century BC, in Ephesus. His style of life has had an obvious …

This study examines the early career of the renowned Buddhologist Lü Cheng as an
aspiring revolutionary. My findings reveal that Lü's rhetoric of “aesthetic revolution” both …

This essay places modern theories of universal suffrage in dialogue with instruments
designed to make the voice of the people sensible: colored ballots, daguerreotypes …

One of the perennial questions in political theology is how the concept of truth is defined and
how such is grounded theologically. The answer to this determines, to a great degree …

How can you know something that cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelled? The
question applies most obviously to things like rights, justice or freedom because they do not …