...This chapter gives a genealogy of suffrage restrictions in Maryland, which held a series of constitutional conventions immediately before, during, and following the emancipation of chattel slaves. Delegates debated the limits of political membership and the franchise in the context of a perceived...

... reproduction. Derrida's “deconstructive genealogy” presents a challenge to the notion of parent as patent and suggests that even in the face of changing technologies, we cannot control the chance elements of reproduction, even within the most reliable machines. Here, I turn the notions of parent...

..., unintentionally, between two economies, between two regimes of law and truth, between the symbolic law and the semiotic, between the law of the father and a yearning to revert to the mother's body. However, in writing this book, her own scroll, Ruth is revealed as another descendant of a genealogy of imaginary...

... and formal modes and inflected by the Qurʾan—such as iltifāt, or rhetorical code-switching. Moreover, Luʿbat al-Nisyān’s use of multiple narrative perspectives and genealogies critically interrogates the hermeneutical practices surrounding the documentation, verification...

...Belonging is universal but how we belong, to whom, and for what purposes are contingent. This chapter investigates the languages of kinship—blood and DNA, pedigrees and family trees—and confronts normative notions of genealogical bewilderment, disorientation, and exhaustion. In the face...

... it is at any given moment, with no clear genealogy or future. Aristotle Nietzsche Friedrich Heraclitus Parmedides Foucault Michel Kant Immanuel Plato Deleuze Gilles Socrates Derrida Jacques Heidegger Martin Gadamer Hans Georg Nietzsche Plato Socrates non-contradiction philosophy genealogy...

...Modern philosophy is increasingly concerned with the so-called genealogy of philosophical thought. This phenomenon begs the question of the genealogy of philosophy's genealogy. The book contends that such an undertaking can clarify not only the origins of specific discontinuities within...

..., and particularly of religious attitudes, actions, and beliefs, consists in “historicizing what has previously been naturalized.” It compares John Dewey's philosophical approach to religion with Friedrich Nietzsche's genealogical method and explains how Nietzsche's genealogy and the work of scholars...

...Chapter 2 assesses and rejects previous claims that Ynglingatal is a genealogical poem concerned to secure agnatic inheritance of royal office in a context of sacral kingship. Nor does it satirize its kings, as has recently been suggested, but rather presents them as victims...

... Idealism as the first speculative attempt to think the (genealogical and conceptual) entanglement of modernity and Christianity in the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution; 2) reconsiders German Idealist conceptions of nothingness, the world, and the absolute as caught between...

...This chapter employs genealogy of religion, critical race theory, and Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka Buddhism to call into question the way in which uninterrogated notions about “religion” and “religions” compromise theologies of religious diversity. At the heart of the argument is the claim that both...

... or subject with the sensations and connotations that accompany it. Sensations Herder Genealogy Aesthetic Nature Subjectivity critics since meier have praised Baumgarten as the “inventor” of aesthetics, who elaborated into a comprehensive theory Leibniz's program of thinking unconscious...

.... For this ability to take distance from the world which predication exhibits, could not be grounded in any self-identity. “Being” comes to designate self-differentiated objects. chaos consciousness creation externality faculties genealogy human identical instincts intentionality inward mankind originary...

...David Lloyd offers Under Representation as a contribution to the genealogy of the racial formation of the human in aesthetic culture. There have been far too few substantive accounts of the central role of the aesthetic in the emergence and dissemination of that universal human...

... disenfranchisement in the US and the legal and political theoretical analyses of it, the chapter argues for a theoretical and genealogical study of disenfranchisement that takes seriously the relationship between the franchise and white supremacy as a political system in the US. disenfranchisement felon inmates...

... readings of Paul is not what is correct and incorrect in Taubes’s interpretations, but rather how we can acquire new understandings of apostle’s texts on the background of the philosophers’ readings of them. Through exegetical as well as genealogical perspectives on Taubes’s readings of Paul, a deeper...

... with the Qurʾan. The chapter investigates the novel’s critique of imbricated modes of genealogical historical inscription under Protectorate Morocco: French imperial discourses of civil society and the Moroccan monarchy’s, and Hajj Ferdi’s, filiation with the Prophet Muhammad. It argues that Chraïbi offers...