Mike Grimshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 284243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Grimshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Grimshaw |
| SIGNATURE | GRIMSHAW M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8829-061X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Canaries, Icebergs and the public sphere: The pragmatic compromise of religious pluralism
The return of religion in western society has resulted in the expression of what is often termed post-secular socio-politics, closely linked to increasingly pluralistic societies that result from globalization. While the public sphere has, in the West, tended to follow a ‘WASP’- derived model of post-Westphalian secular public sphere and the privatization of religion, this model is increasingly under critique and complaint. How might pluralism an…
The Exception of Transcendence: The Political Theology of Kierkegaard and Das
A continuation of Das’s deep engagement with political theology (that is, his political theology of Schelling [2016]), this text undertakes a deep and provocative reading of Kierkegaard’s political theology that strikes to the depths of our ontology. Positioned versus Church and State, a refutation of Christendom and its continuations in secular modernity, Kierkegaard’s political theology also exposes the limits and issues of Schmitt’s project. T…
The necessity of impure sovereignty
This essay arises from an engagement with the reflections and letters of Jacob Taubes to Carl Schmitt (Taubes 2013); central to these writings is the question of the sovereign. If the sovereign is the one who decides the exception, then sovereignty is focused on this decision of what is/is not the exception - and who gets to decide. An engagement with these writings of Taubes as a Jew and friend-enemy of the Nazi jurist offers a way toward what I…
Clergy views on their role in city resilience: Lessons from the Canterbury earthquakes
Successful emergency management requires effective communication between the civil defence agencies and the community to provide and receive timely and accurate information, and identify needs and resources. Religious communities encompass a wide cross‐section of social classes, socio‐economic indicators, ethnic groups and ages, and have their own internal communication structures. In this study, clergy in different Christian denominations were a…
Flaneuring with Vattimo: The annotative hermeneutics of weak thought
This article rethinks the future of continental philosophy of religion through a central, annotative reading of Gianni Vattimo's Not Being God. The reading develops from Agamben on citation and Žižek on the short-circuit into a new reading strategy of annotation as a development of weak thought. It argues for what is termed the flânerie of the weak thought of annotation, rethinking the future of continental philosophy of religion as para-thought.…
Carl Schmitt
In the lecture presented in this chapter, Jacob Taubes attests to his respect for Carl Schmitt, even though as a “conscious Jew” he belongs among those whom Schmitt has marked as the “enemy.” At the outset, Taubes claims that to truly understand Schmitt one should not turn to his “major, clamorous texts” but rather should read his “broken confessions,” which were published as Ex Captivitate Salus in 1950. Taubes argues that Schmitt's “enemy,” def…
To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections
A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor—and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology, believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedi…
To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections
A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor—and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology, believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedi…
Sheilas on the Move? Religion, Spirituality, and Tourism
How might we consider the emergent field of religion and tourism and its sub‐field of spiritual travel? This review article engages with two recent publications that provide a mapping of this emergent territory. Yet is mapping a critical engagement? Does discussion of what M ichael S tausberg terms the “social fact” of religion and tourism suffice? The rise of the academic study of religion within the modern, secular university tends to exclude t…
D’Arcy’s view from the hill: ‘Weak thought’ on Pakeha as particular, regional 'buggers
This paper argues for the cultural development of ‘Pakeha’ as a particular mid 20th century regional, secular, modernist identity and belief that developed in the South Island between the 1920s and the late 1950s. Beginning with the influence of D'arcy Cresswell who in 1923 claimed a new type of Pakeha indigeneity in a supposedly 'terra nullis', it argues Pakeha arises out of a distinctly modernist identity: secular, urban, exilic and literary. P…
Encountering Religion: Encounter, Religion, and the Cultural Cold War, 1953-1967
Responding not Believing: Political Theology and Post-Secular Societyzxht
In the past decade social theorists and Continental philosophers have returned again to an engagement with Christianity and the legacy of Christian belief. This is framed in the context of a Europe seen in transition to a post-secular identity and, often implicitly, against what is seen as an encroaching Islamic presence within Europe. This move has often brought together Marxist, post-Marxist, and Catholic-legacy philosophers, together with phil…
Notes toward a Loos-ian Theory of Religion in Modernity
This work is concerned with developing a theory of religion in modernity using the work of the architect and critic Adolf Loos. It is an inter-textual re-reading of Loos and critical readings of Loos, seeking to posit a developing Loosian theory as a possible new methodology for re-reading the tensions toward religion evidenced in modernity
Sheilas on the Move? Religion, Spirituality, and Tourism
How might we consider the emergent field of religion and tourism and its sub‐field of spiritual travel? This review article engages with two recent publications that provide a mapping of this emergent territory. Yet is mapping a critical engagement? Does discussion of what M ichael S tausberg terms the “social fact” of religion and tourism suffice? The rise of the academic study of religion within the modern, secular university tends to exclude t…
The necessity of impure sovereignty
This essay arises from an engagement with the reflections and letters of Jacob Taubes to Carl Schmitt (Taubes 2013); central to these writings is the question of the sovereign. If the sovereign is the one who decides the exception, then sovereignty is focused on this decision of what is/is not the exception - and who gets to decide. An engagement with these writings of Taubes as a Jew and friend-enemy of the Nazi jurist offers a way toward what I…
Clergy views on their role in city resilience: Lessons from the Canterbury earthquakes
Successful emergency management requires effective communication between the civil defence agencies and the community to provide and receive timely and accurate information, and identify needs and resources. Religious communities encompass a wide cross‐section of social classes, socio‐economic indicators, ethnic groups and ages, and have their own internal communication structures. In this study, clergy in different Christian denominations were a…
Encountering Religion: Encounter, Religion, and the Cultural Cold War, 1953-1967
Responding not Believing: Political Theology and Post-Secular Societyzxht
In the past decade social theorists and Continental philosophers have returned again to an engagement with Christianity and the legacy of Christian belief. This is framed in the context of a Europe seen in transition to a post-secular identity and, often implicitly, against what is seen as an encroaching Islamic presence within Europe. This move has often brought together Marxist, post-Marxist, and Catholic-legacy philosophers, together with phil…
Notes toward a Loos-ian Theory of Religion in Modernity
This work is concerned with developing a theory of religion in modernity using the work of the architect and critic Adolf Loos. It is an inter-textual re-reading of Loos and critical readings of Loos, seeking to posit a developing Loosian theory as a possible new methodology for re-reading the tensions toward religion evidenced in modernity
Responding not Believing: Political Theology and Post-Secular Societyzxht
In the past decade social theorists and Continental philosophers have returned again to an engagement with Christianity and the legacy of Christian belief. This is framed in the context of a Europe seen in transition to a post-secular identity and, often implicitly, against what is seen as an encroaching Islamic presence within Europe. This move has often brought together Marxist, post-Marxist, and Catholic-legacy philosophers, together with phil…
Encountering Religion: Encounter, Religion, and the Cultural Cold War, 1953-1967
D’Arcy’s view from the hill: ‘Weak thought’ on Pakeha as particular, regional 'buggers
This paper argues for the cultural development of ‘Pakeha’ as a particular mid 20th century regional, secular, modernist identity and belief that developed in the South Island between the 1920s and the late 1950s. Beginning with the influence of D'arcy Cresswell who in 1923 claimed a new type of Pakeha indigeneity in a supposedly 'terra nullis', it argues Pakeha arises out of a distinctly modernist identity: secular, urban, exilic and literary. P…
Carl Schmitt
In the lecture presented in this chapter, Jacob Taubes attests to his respect for Carl Schmitt, even though as a “conscious Jew” he belongs among those whom Schmitt has marked as the “enemy.” At the outset, Taubes claims that to truly understand Schmitt one should not turn to his “major, clamorous texts” but rather should read his “broken confessions,” which were published as Ex Captivitate Salus in 1950. Taubes argues that Schmitt's “enemy,” def…
To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections
A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor—and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology, believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedi…
To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections
A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor—and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt shared an abiding interest in the fundamental problems of political theology, believing the great challenges of modern political theory were ancient in pedi…
Sheilas on the Move? Religion, Spirituality, and Tourism
How might we consider the emergent field of religion and tourism and its sub‐field of spiritual travel? This review article engages with two recent publications that provide a mapping of this emergent territory. Yet is mapping a critical engagement? Does discussion of what M ichael S tausberg terms the “social fact” of religion and tourism suffice? The rise of the academic study of religion within the modern, secular university tends to exclude t…
Flaneuring with Vattimo: The annotative hermeneutics of weak thought
This article rethinks the future of continental philosophy of religion through a central, annotative reading of Gianni Vattimo's Not Being God. The reading develops from Agamben on citation and Žižek on the short-circuit into a new reading strategy of annotation as a development of weak thought. It argues for what is termed the flânerie of the weak thought of annotation, rethinking the future of continental philosophy of religion as para-thought.…
Clergy views on their role in city resilience: Lessons from the Canterbury earthquakes
Successful emergency management requires effective communication between the civil defence agencies and the community to provide and receive timely and accurate information, and identify needs and resources. Religious communities encompass a wide cross‐section of social classes, socio‐economic indicators, ethnic groups and ages, and have their own internal communication structures. In this study, clergy in different Christian denominations were a…
The necessity of impure sovereignty
This essay arises from an engagement with the reflections and letters of Jacob Taubes to Carl Schmitt (Taubes 2013); central to these writings is the question of the sovereign. If the sovereign is the one who decides the exception, then sovereignty is focused on this decision of what is/is not the exception - and who gets to decide. An engagement with these writings of Taubes as a Jew and friend-enemy of the Nazi jurist offers a way toward what I…
The Exception of Transcendence: The Political Theology of Kierkegaard and Das
A continuation of Das’s deep engagement with political theology (that is, his political theology of Schelling [2016]), this text undertakes a deep and provocative reading of Kierkegaard’s political theology that strikes to the depths of our ontology. Positioned versus Church and State, a refutation of Christendom and its continuations in secular modernity, Kierkegaard’s political theology also exposes the limits and issues of Schmitt’s project. T…
On Canaries, Icebergs and the public sphere: The pragmatic compromise of religious pluralism
The return of religion in western society has resulted in the expression of what is often termed post-secular socio-politics, closely linked to increasingly pluralistic societies that result from globalization. While the public sphere has, in the West, tended to follow a ‘WASP’- derived model of post-Westphalian secular public sphere and the privatization of religion, this model is increasingly under critique and complaint. How might pluralism an…
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