Webster Robert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 759961 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Webster Robert |
| PRENOMES | Webster |
| SOBRENOME | Robert |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERT W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Syracuse University Syracuse New York 13244 USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8045-4771 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Horses, Horses, Horses
In this interview, William Robert and Ecumenica’s editor, Hank Willenbrink, discuss Robert’s award-winning book Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance and his pedagogical approach to teaching religion through theater. Robert’s scholarship derives from his classroom practice, where students use plays to develop, revise, and redevelop interpretations with Robert acting as a “producer” to empower their progression. In the conversation, Robert d…
Learning Nothing
LEE EDELMAN AND THE QUEER STUDY OF RELIGION. Edited by Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill, and Linn Marie Tonstad. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 280. Hardback, $160.00. BAD EDUCATION: WHY QUEER THEORY TEACHES US NOTHING. By Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. Paperback, $28.95. SEX, OR THE UNBEARABLE. By Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 168. Paperback, $24.95. NO FUTURE: QUEE…
Through the looking glass
More young people are living in the world than ever before, 90% of whom reside in low and middle income countries (LMICs). To address their needs, it is critical to have sustainable youth engagement when determining policy and to advance effective implementation of youth-focused interventions. Youth Community Advisory Boards (CABs) are a sustainable mechanism to achieve this goal. This paper describes engagement with youth CAB members across four…
My Neuromatic Cut‐Up
NEUROMATIC: OR, A PARTICULAR HISTORY OF RELIGION AND THE BRAINBy John Lardas Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021 . Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. The offering I've brought into this ritual scene is a cut-up. It's a dialogic cut-up: of quotations from Neuromatic and questions from me. The scanning mechanism that I am is, I suspect, calibrated interrogatively. Neuromatic had my synapses firing like disco lights at Studio 54—its own kind…
Pedagogical cliff‐jumping
This article chronicles how Introduction to the Study of Religion has become my favorite course to teach. In it, I narrate my process of pedagogical reinvention and syllabus redesign. Framed by professional and personal backstories, I share my pedagogical desires, list some pedagogical cues I took, and articulate pedagogical decisions and associated wagers. (Along the way, I draw on a range of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and pedagogical mate…
Nude, Glorious, Living
Antigone's Nature
Antigone fascinates G. W. F. Hegel and Luce Irigaray, both of whom turn to her in their explorations and articulations of ethics. Hegel and Irigaray make these re-turns to Antigone through the double and related lenses of nature and sexual difference. This essay investigates these figures of Antigone and the accompanying ethical accounts of nature and sexual difference as a way of examining Irigaray's complex relation to and creative uses of Hege…
Trials
"Trials" published on by Fordham University Press.
Between Nature and Culture
The incest prohibition cannot be conceived within the nature-culture oppositional dyad, which relegates it and Antigone to the unthinkable, barred from symbolic registers and rendered unintelligible. Antigone remains naturally and culturally unintelligible. Like the incest taboo that she incarnates, she belongs neither to nature nor to culture but remains outside of and prior to them, as their condition of possibility. Antigone is the eventive im…
Surviving, Forever Foreign
Antigone is a foreigner, even at home. She is from the start, in Jacques Derrida's words, “the system's vomit”, finding no place in nature or culture since she occupies the space between them of the incest prohibition, which she transgresses. As a woman, she remains a sexual outsider, barred from the exclusively male polis, though she violates this proscription and, as a result, is entombed alive, so that her tomb (oikēsis) becomes her home (oiko…
Robert Badinter and the Death Penalty
Antigone's Nature
Antigone fascinates G. W. F. Hegel and Luce Irigaray, both of whom turn to her in their explorations and articulations of ethics. Hegel and Irigaray make these re-turns to Antigone through the double and related lenses of nature and sexual difference. This essay investigates these figures of Antigone and the accompanying ethical accounts of nature and sexual difference as a way of examining Irigaray's complex relation to and creative uses of Hege…
Robert Badinter and the Death Penalty
Trials
"Trials" published on by Fordham University Press.
Between Nature and Culture
The incest prohibition cannot be conceived within the nature-culture oppositional dyad, which relegates it and Antigone to the unthinkable, barred from symbolic registers and rendered unintelligible. Antigone remains naturally and culturally unintelligible. Like the incest taboo that she incarnates, she belongs neither to nature nor to culture but remains outside of and prior to them, as their condition of possibility. Antigone is the eventive im…
Surviving, Forever Foreign
Antigone is a foreigner, even at home. She is from the start, in Jacques Derrida's words, “the system's vomit”, finding no place in nature or culture since she occupies the space between them of the incest prohibition, which she transgresses. As a woman, she remains a sexual outsider, barred from the exclusively male polis, though she violates this proscription and, as a result, is entombed alive, so that her tomb (oikēsis) becomes her home (oiko…
Antigone's Nature
Antigone fascinates G. W. F. Hegel and Luce Irigaray, both of whom turn to her in their explorations and articulations of ethics. Hegel and Irigaray make these re-turns to Antigone through the double and related lenses of nature and sexual difference. This essay investigates these figures of Antigone and the accompanying ethical accounts of nature and sexual difference as a way of examining Irigaray's complex relation to and creative uses of Hege…
Nude, Glorious, Living
Pedagogical cliff‐jumping
This article chronicles how Introduction to the Study of Religion has become my favorite course to teach. In it, I narrate my process of pedagogical reinvention and syllabus redesign. Framed by professional and personal backstories, I share my pedagogical desires, list some pedagogical cues I took, and articulate pedagogical decisions and associated wagers. (Along the way, I draw on a range of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and pedagogical mate…
My Neuromatic Cut‐Up
NEUROMATIC: OR, A PARTICULAR HISTORY OF RELIGION AND THE BRAINBy John Lardas Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021 . Pp. xv + 426. Paper $32.50. The offering I've brought into this ritual scene is a cut-up. It's a dialogic cut-up: of quotations from Neuromatic and questions from me. The scanning mechanism that I am is, I suspect, calibrated interrogatively. Neuromatic had my synapses firing like disco lights at Studio 54—its own kind…
Through the looking glass
More young people are living in the world than ever before, 90% of whom reside in low and middle income countries (LMICs). To address their needs, it is critical to have sustainable youth engagement when determining policy and to advance effective implementation of youth-focused interventions. Youth Community Advisory Boards (CABs) are a sustainable mechanism to achieve this goal. This paper describes engagement with youth CAB members across four…
Learning Nothing
LEE EDELMAN AND THE QUEER STUDY OF RELIGION. Edited by Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill, and Linn Marie Tonstad. London: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 280. Hardback, $160.00. BAD EDUCATION: WHY QUEER THEORY TEACHES US NOTHING. By Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. Paperback, $28.95. SEX, OR THE UNBEARABLE. By Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 168. Paperback, $24.95. NO FUTURE: QUEE…
Horses, Horses, Horses
In this interview, William Robert and Ecumenica’s editor, Hank Willenbrink, discuss Robert’s award-winning book Unbridled: Studying Religion in Performance and his pedagogical approach to teaching religion through theater. Robert’s scholarship derives from his classroom practice, where students use plays to develop, revise, and redevelop interpretations with Robert acting as a “producer” to empower their progression. In the conversation, Robert d…
Psychology (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Art (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Religious Education and Schools (3 obras) · Study and Philosophy of Religion (3 obras) · Brother (2 obras) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 obras)