Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1107586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary-Jane Rubenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary-Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubenstein |
| SIGNATURE | RUBENSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
A Pantheology of Pandemic: Sex, Race, Nature, and the Virus
The explanations started pouring in even before the virus attained “pandemic” status in March of 2020: we were being punished. According to a vocal subset of Evangelical pastors and ultra-Orthodox rabbis, the death-dealing virus was divine retribution for the sins of (who else?) LGBT-identified people and their allies, who aggressively violated what the pastors and rabbis called “the order of nature.”1 Meanwhile, their left-leaning counterparts a…
Veridical Claims and the Question (once more) of Philosophy of Religion
Bradley Onishi’s Sacrality of the Secular offers a helpful mapping of the recent history and contemporary terrain of the subfield awkwardly called “the continental philosophy of religion.” Onishi anchors his work in careful readings of two of the discipline’s forefathers: the over-appreciated Heidegger and the under-appreciated Bataille. In delineating the territory that these thinkers have opened, Onishi makes an operative distinction between “c…
Pantheist Monstrosities: On Race, Gender, Divinity, and Dirt
Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World. By Lisa Sideris
In the beginning, there was nothing. Nothing, that is, except the laws of physics operating on a quantum vacuum, whose random fluctuations one dayless day produced a mad rush of energy that gradually cooled into particles, atoms, stars, and planets. Eventually, in the suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, nowhere in particular, one planet eventually developed water, amoebas, grasses, gophers, and eventually the most complex species ever to emerge…
Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters
Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical-that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be material, mutable, and multiple. Since the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, Western thought has therefore demonized what it calls pantheism, accusing it of incoherence, absurdity, and-with…
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Worlds without end: The Many Lives of the Multiverse … In Which Are Discussed Pre-, Early-, and Postmodern Multiple-Worlds Cosmologies : The Sundry Arguments for and Against Them : The Striking Peculi…
Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for their recent appearance. One concerns the so-called fine-tuning of the universe: nature's constants are so delicately calibrated that it seems they have been set just right to allow life to emerge. In their very efforts to sidestep metaphysics, theoretical physicists propose multiverse sce…
The Twilight of the Doxai: Or, How to Philosophize with a Whac-A-MoleTM Mallet
This article evaluates the hermeneutic value of the category of belief from the perspective of a broadly “continental” philosophy of religion. From Socrates’s dismantling of his interlocutors’ doxai to Pseudo-Dionysius’s un-saying of the divine names to Kierkegaard’s noetic divestment to Derrida’s aporetic genealogies, it argues that “belief” is the target, rather than the telos , of philosophic scrutiny. For the authors engaged here, beliefs are…
Capital Shares: The Way Back into the With of Christianity
In the ten years since the publication of Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's Empire, the relationship between Christianity and global capital has received increasing theological attention among the adherents, critics, sympathizersssa, and apostates of Radical Orthodoxy. At stake in this conversation is the possibility that Christianity might provide a universal ontology sufficient to ground a counter-hegemonic, specifically socialist, praxis. On…
Onward, Ridiculous Debaters
This article responds to Adam Kotsko's counter-positioning of Thomist-Milbankian hierarchy on the one hand and Deleuzian-Surinian univocity on the other as competing visions for an ontologically grounded universal socialism. Pointing to Milbank's declaration that it would be "ridiculous" to debate Christianity's universality, Rubenstein raises suspicion about the ethical and political value of universality as such. Ultimately, she points to Jean-…
Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters
Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical-that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be material, mutable, and multiple. Since the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, Western thought has therefore demonized what it calls pantheism, accusing it of incoherence, absurdity, and-with…
The Twilight of the Doxai: Or, How to Philosophize with a Whac-A-MoleTM Mallet
This article evaluates the hermeneutic value of the category of belief from the perspective of a broadly “continental” philosophy of religion. From Socrates’s dismantling of his interlocutors’ doxai to Pseudo-Dionysius’s un-saying of the divine names to Kierkegaard’s noetic divestment to Derrida’s aporetic genealogies, it argues that “belief” is the target, rather than the telos , of philosophic scrutiny. For the authors engaged here, beliefs are…
Onward, Ridiculous Debaters
This article responds to Adam Kotsko's counter-positioning of Thomist-Milbankian hierarchy on the one hand and Deleuzian-Surinian univocity on the other as competing visions for an ontologically grounded universal socialism. Pointing to Milbank's declaration that it would be "ridiculous" to debate Christianity's universality, Rubenstein raises suspicion about the ethical and political value of universality as such. Ultimately, she points to Jean-…
Onward, Ridiculous Debaters
This article responds to Adam Kotsko's counter-positioning of Thomist-Milbankian hierarchy on the one hand and Deleuzian-Surinian univocity on the other as competing visions for an ontologically grounded universal socialism. Pointing to Milbank's declaration that it would be "ridiculous" to debate Christianity's universality, Rubenstein raises suspicion about the ethical and political value of universality as such. Ultimately, she points to Jean-…
Capital Shares: The Way Back into the With of Christianity
In the ten years since the publication of Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's Empire, the relationship between Christianity and global capital has received increasing theological attention among the adherents, critics, sympathizersssa, and apostates of Radical Orthodoxy. At stake in this conversation is the possibility that Christianity might provide a universal ontology sufficient to ground a counter-hegemonic, specifically socialist, praxis. On…
The Twilight of the Doxai: Or, How to Philosophize with a Whac-A-MoleTM Mallet
This article evaluates the hermeneutic value of the category of belief from the perspective of a broadly “continental” philosophy of religion. From Socrates’s dismantling of his interlocutors’ doxai to Pseudo-Dionysius’s un-saying of the divine names to Kierkegaard’s noetic divestment to Derrida’s aporetic genealogies, it argues that “belief” is the target, rather than the telos , of philosophic scrutiny. For the authors engaged here, beliefs are…
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Worlds without end: The Many Lives of the Multiverse … In Which Are Discussed Pre-, Early-, and Postmodern Multiple-Worlds Cosmologies : The Sundry Arguments for and Against Them : The Striking Peculi…
Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for their recent appearance. One concerns the so-called fine-tuning of the universe: nature's constants are so delicately calibrated that it seems they have been set just right to allow life to emerge. In their very efforts to sidestep metaphysics, theoretical physicists propose multiverse sce…
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters
Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical-that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be material, mutable, and multiple. Since the excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, Western thought has therefore demonized what it calls pantheism, accusing it of incoherence, absurdity, and-with…
Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World. By Lisa Sideris
In the beginning, there was nothing. Nothing, that is, except the laws of physics operating on a quantum vacuum, whose random fluctuations one dayless day produced a mad rush of energy that gradually cooled into particles, atoms, stars, and planets. Eventually, in the suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, nowhere in particular, one planet eventually developed water, amoebas, grasses, gophers, and eventually the most complex species ever to emerge…
Pantheist Monstrosities: On Race, Gender, Divinity, and Dirt
Veridical Claims and the Question (once more) of Philosophy of Religion
Bradley Onishi’s Sacrality of the Secular offers a helpful mapping of the recent history and contemporary terrain of the subfield awkwardly called “the continental philosophy of religion.” Onishi anchors his work in careful readings of two of the discipline’s forefathers: the over-appreciated Heidegger and the under-appreciated Bataille. In delineating the territory that these thinkers have opened, Onishi makes an operative distinction between “c…
A Pantheology of Pandemic: Sex, Race, Nature, and the Virus
The explanations started pouring in even before the virus attained “pandemic” status in March of 2020: we were being punished. According to a vocal subset of Evangelical pastors and ultra-Orthodox rabbis, the death-dealing virus was divine retribution for the sins of (who else?) LGBT-identified people and their allies, who aggressively violated what the pastors and rabbis called “the order of nature.”1 Meanwhile, their left-leaning counterparts a…
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Theology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Materialism (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)