Kenneth Surin

Biographic Data

ID253910
NAMEKenneth Surin
GIVEN NAMESKenneth
FAMILY NAMESurin
SIGNATURESURIN K
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
ORCID0000-0003-4875-8980
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation by Jason Demers (review)

    Kenneth SurinARTICLESubStance2023

    Reviewed by: The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation by Jason Demers Kenneth Surin Demers, Jason. The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation. University of Toronto Press, 2019. 218pp. This most welcome book gets off on the right foot by eschewing such problematic terms as “post-structuralism” or “French theory” in studying the work of Fren…

  • Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes

    Roland Boer, Creston Davis et al.BOOKPolitical Myth2020

    In this provocative and necessary work, Roland Boer, a leading biblical scholar and cultural theorist, develops a political myth for the Left: a powerful narrative to be harnessed in support of progressive policy. Boer focuses on foundational stories in the Hexateuch, the first six books of the Bible, from Genesis through Joshua. He contends that the "primal story" that runs from Creation, through the Exodus, and to the Promised Land is a complex…

  • Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order

    Kenneth Surin, Creston Davis et al.BOOKFreedom Not Yet2020

    The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the vast majority of its citizens require liberation from their present socioeconomic circumstances. The marxist theorist Kenneth Surin contends that innovation and change at the level of the political must occur in order to achieve this liberation, and for this endeavor marxist theory and philosophy are indispensable. In Freedom Not…

  • Surroundings: Deleuze and Guattari

    Open AccessKenneth SurinARTICLECanadian Journal of Communication2016

    Deleuze and Guattari, as strict immanentists and consistent proponents of an “in-the-middle” or “in-between,” had little philosophical time for notions of “the outside” or “the beyond” construed in terms invoking traditional ideas of transcendence (even though they created their own absolutely original notion of an “immanent transcendence.” Any such “in-the-middle,” however, must presuppose a milieu that is outside that “in-the-middle,” albeit on…

  • Farred on Athletic Movement and Rest

    Kenneth SurinARTICLECultural Critique2016References: 1

  • George González, Shape-Shifting Capital: Spiritual Management, Critical Theory, and the Ethnographic Project

    Open AccessKenneth SurinARTICLECritical Research on Religion2016

  • Marxism, Without Guarantees”: What I Learned From Stuart Hall

    Kenneth SurinARTICLECultural Critique2015References: 4

  • Western Marxism in the Post-Financial Crisis Era: An Interview with Kenneth Surin

    Kenneth Surin, Yanlin Shi et al.ARTICLEInternational Critical Thought2014References: 4

    In this interview, Professor Surin speaks about the latest changes in Western Marxism and the urgent need to solve some immediate and practical problems. He provides the theoretical basis and suggests the way forward for the further development of Western Marxism in the context of the post-financial crisis

  • Marxism and religion

    Open AccessKenneth SurinARTICLECritical Research on Religion2013Cited by: 5References: 3

    A brief overview of Marx's account of religion is followed by a consideration of a conception of liberation-a notion shared by marxists and adherents of religious traditions alike-that is substantive enough to overcome the marginalization and exploitation of countless numbers of human beings. The final section deals with the possibility of a rapprochement between the marxist and the adherent of a religious tradition

  • Questionnaire

    Kenneth SurinARTICLEContemporary French and…2012

  • Introduction: Theory Now

    Kenneth SurinARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2011Cited by: 3

    The paper begins by examining the conditions that allowed theory to emerge and flourish in the American academy. It then proposes a typology for grouping together and analyzing the papers given at the March 2010 "Theory Now," from which many of the essays in this issue originated. It concludes by suggesting that at a time marked by economic and political constraint, theory is indispensable as an instrument of vigilance against the obfuscations of…

  • Christ, Ethics and Tragedy: Essays in Honour of Donald MacKinnon

    Donald M MacKinnon, Kenneth SurinBOOKChrist, Ethics and Tragedy2010

  • “Retrospect/Prospect”: Notes on Modern Theology After Twenty‐five Years

    Open AccessKenneth SurinARTICLEModern Theology2010

  • On Producing (the Concept of) Solidarity

    Open AccessKenneth SurinARTICLERethinking Marxism2010

    In the West/North, there have been two dominant models for understanding community and its associated bonds of solidarity. One is preindustrial and invokes the notion of the village with its ‘organic’ ties of neighborliness and so on. The other is industrial and views community in terms of the shared situation of exploitation that is the basis of the constitution of the industrial working class. Neither model applies any longer in the West/North:…

  • Theology of Money

    Philip Goodchild, Creston Davis et al.BOOKTheology of Money2009

    Theology of Money is a philosophical inquiry into the nature and role of money in the contemporary world. Philip Goodchild reveals the significance of money as a dynamic social force by arguing that under its influence, moral evaluation is subordinated to economic valuation, which is essentially abstract and anarchic. His rigorous inquiry opens into a complex analysis of political economy, encompassing markets and capital, banks and the state, cl…

  • Conceptualizing Trauma, but What about Asia

    Kenneth SurinARTICLEpositions asia critique2008References: 1

    Research Article| February 01 2008 Conceptualizing Trauma, but What about Asia? Kenneth Surin Kenneth Surin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2008) 16 (1): 15–37. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2007-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth Surin; Conceptualizing Trauma, but What about Asia?. positions 1 February 2008; 16 (1): 15–37. doi: htt…

  • The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred – Kevin Hart

    Open AccessKenneth SurinARTICLEModern Theology2007

  • Can a "Chosen" People Have A "True" Politics

    Kenneth SurinARTICLEAngelaki2007

  • Fandom: Colin "Pine Tree" Meads

    Kenneth SurinARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2006Cited by: 1

    Research Article| April 01 2006 Fandom: Colin “Pine Tree” Meads Kenneth Surin Kenneth Surin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (2): 429–446. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-429 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth Surin; Fandom: Colin “Pine Tree” Meads. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2006; 105 (2): 429–446. doi…

  • Force

    Kenneth SurinCHAPTERGilles Deleuze2005

  • World Ordering

    Kenneth SurinARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2005Cited by: 1

    Research Article| April 01 2005 World Ordering Kenneth Surin Kenneth Surin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (2): 185–197. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-2-185 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth Surin; World Ordering. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2005; 104 (2): 185–197. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876…

  • The Night Can Sweat with Terror As Before: Afterthoughts

    Kenneth SurinARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2003

    Research Article| October 01 2003 "The Night Can Sweat with Terror As Before": Afterthoughts Kenneth Surin Kenneth Surin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2003) 102 (4): 895–913. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-4-895 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite …

  • Getting the Picture: Donald Davidson on Robert Morris's Blind Time Drawings IV (Drawing with Davidson)

    Kenneth SurinARTICLESouth Atlantic Quarterly2002

    Research Article| January 01 2002 Getting the Picture: Donald Davidson on Robert Morris's Blind Time Drawings IV (Drawing with Davidson) Kenneth Surin Kenneth Surin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2002) 101 (1): 133–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-101-1-133 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth Surin; Getting the Picture:…

  • Dossier on Empire

    Open AccessKenneth SurinARTICLERethinking Marxism2001References: 1

    Leo Panitch, in a recent article in New Left Review (2000), praised the late Nicos Poulantzas for his new and productive conceptualization of the role and character of the state as it was beginning to evolve in response to the pressures of a burgeoning economic internationalization in the capitalist nations from the 1960s onward. In the first phases of this new situation, marked by the postwar economic resurgence of Germany and Japan and the seem…

  • The Sovereign Individual, "Subalternity," and Becoming-Other

    Kenneth SurinARTICLEAngelaki2001Cited by: 1References: 12