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    Marrano Universalism: Benjamin, Derrida, and Buck-Morss on the Condition of Universal Exile.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2019 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2019 (186):25-44.
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    Tsimtsum and Modernity: Lurianic Heritage in Modern Philosophy and Theology.Agata Bielik-Robson & Daniel H. Weiss (eds.) - 2020 - De Gruyter.
    This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, which demonstrate the historical development of this notion and its evolving meaning: from the Hebrew Bible and the classical midrashic collections, through Kabbalah, Isaac Luria himself and his disciples, up to modernity (ranging from Spinoza, Böhme, Leibniz, Newton, Schelling, and Hegel to Scholem, Rosenzweig, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, Levinas, Jonas, Moltmann, and Derrida).
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    (1 other version)A Broken Constellation: Agamben's Theology between Tragedy and Messianism.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2010 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2010 (152):103-126.
    ExcerptThis essay analyzes the following constellation of concepts from a theologico-philosophical perspective: “state of exception,” “bare life,” and “the remnant.” Recently employed in the work of Giorgio Agamben, none of these concepts is his own coinage. Agamben borrowed “state of exception” from Carl Schmitt's Political Theology, “bare life” from Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence,” and “the remnant” from biblical sources, which include Isaiah and the letters of Saint Paul. Nevertheless, the reappearance of these concepts within Agamben's constellation provides each with (...)
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    ‘The Story Continues …’ Schelling and Rosenzweig on narrative philosophy.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2019 - International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 80 (1-2):127-142.
    In my essay, I analyze Schelling’s and Rosenzweig’s commitment to the narrative philosophy as a unique method of telling a philosophical story. I want to understand what such “philosophical story” means and how it differs from the conceptual approach, here represented by Hegel. I also want to see how it connects with Schelling’s another project continued by Rosenzweig, of doing “positive philosophy”: in what way does positivity imply narrativity? Is this a necessary implication? And, last but not least, I want (...)
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    Exodus into Ordinary Life.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2024 - Angelaki 29 (3):45-59.
    This essay focuses on Eric Santner’s psychoanalytic reinterpretation of the crucial symbol of Judaism – yetziat mitzrayim, the getting out of Egypt – as “the Exodus out of our own Egyptomania.” Formulated in his book on Rosenzweig and Freud, On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, it appears in all Santner’s later works concerned with political theology, where “Egyptomania” stands for everything that overburdens human life with an excessive “signifying stress” or “ex-citation,” weighing it down with the impossible demands of the (...)
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    The Sum of All Fears: the Figure of the Anti/Metaphysical Jew in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (and beyond).Agata Bielik-Robson - 2024 - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 32 (1):35-59.
    My essay positions Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (Schwarze Hefte) in the light of the later transformation of his thought after die Kehre, which introduces a new motif: “the withdrawal of Being.” And while the Jewish question disappears from his official discourse, the essay poses it nonetheless, despite and against Heidegger’s silence: Does the diagnosis from the Black Notebooks, which perceives the Jew as the agent of metaphysical destruction, still stand? In my analysis, the figurative Jew emerges in a role which Heidegger (...)
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  7. The Void of God, or The Paradox of the Pious Atheism: From Scholem to Derrida.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2020 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 12 (2):109-132.
    My essay will take as its point of departure the paragraph from Gershom Scholem’s “Reflections on Jewish Theology,” in which he depicts the modern religious experience as the one of the "void of God" or as "pious atheism". I will first argue that the "void of God" cannot be reduced to atheistic non-belief in the presence of God. Then, I will demonstrate the further development of the Scholemian notion of the ‘pious atheism’ in Derrida, especially in his Lurianic treatment of (...)
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    Reditus into self-inflicted immaturity: Agamben’s perversions.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2024 - Journal for Cultural Research 28 (3):234-250.
    In my essay, I offer an interpretation of Giorgio Agamben’s political thought as a case of philosophical perversion. According to Lacan, perverse practice is based on a structural non-personal enjoyment, in which a pervert assumes the role of an executioner, meticulously executing his task. My analysis will focus on Agamben’s perverse use of the messianic discourse, the aim of which is to explode it from within: while applying all elements of the messianic idiom, Agamben assumes a mission the goal of (...)
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    “Humbled onto Death”: Kenosis and Tsimtsum as the Two Models of Divine Self-Negation.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2024 - Philosophies 9 (5):134.
    This essay reflects on the concept of the death of God as part and parcel of modern philosophical theology: a genre of thinking that came into existence with Hegel’s announcement of the “speculative Good Friday” as the most natural expression of die Religion der neuen Zeiten, “the religion of modern times”. In my interpretation, the death of God not only does not spell the end of the era of atheism but, on the contrary, inaugurates a new era of characteristically modern (...)
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    Derrida’s Umbrapolitics: Marrano “Living Together”.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2021 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 4 (4):63-82.
    This essay focuses on political implications of Derrida’s messianicité as a form of Marrano messianism: a universal vision of community “out of joints” which, despite its disjointedness and inner separation, nonetheless addresses itself as “we”. By referring to the generalized “Marrano experience” – the fate of those Sephardic Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity and, in consequence, became neither Jewish nor Christian – Derrida takes the Marrano as his paradigmatic political figure of a “rogue” who escapes every identity (...)
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    Another conversion. Stanisław Brzozowski’s ‘diary’ as an early instance of the post-secular turn to religion.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2011 - Studies in East European Thought 63 (4):279-291.
    This essay is an attempt to analyze an important decision Brzozowski took at the end of his life, i.e. his late turn towards Catholicism, which, despite his own objections, we should nonetheless call a religious conversion. The main reason why Brzozowski resisted the traditional rhetoric of conversion lies in his often repeated conviction that faith cannot invalidate life, because “what is not biographical, does not exist at all.” Brzozowski, therefore, rejects conversion understood as a radical and abrupt revolution of the (...)
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    Bielik Robson: żyj i pozwól żyć.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2012 - Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej. Edited by Michał Sutowski.
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    Bad timing: The subject as a work of time.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2000 - Angelaki 5 (3):71 – 91.
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    Derrida's Marrano Passover: exile, survival, betrayal, and the metaphysics of non-identity.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2023 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    The first book devoted to Derrida's Marranism - his paradoxical 'non-Jewish Jewishness' - connecting it to the Derridean themes of exile, survival, betrayal and autobiography.
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    Freedom and dependence: A psychoanalytical contribution to the problem of determination.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2002 - Angelaki 7 (3):45 – 62.
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    Granice wspólnoty albo gra z cieniem: brak, sekret i duch przyjaźni w antropologii Plessnera i Derridy.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2018 - Ruch Filozoficzny 73 (3):61.
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  17. Głos w dyskusji.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2004 - Sztuka I Filozofia (Art and Philosophy) 24.
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    Interrogating Modernity: Debates with Hans Blumenberg.Agata Bielik-Robson & Daniel Whistler (eds.) - 2020 - Palgrave Macmillan.
    Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology. That is, the twelve essays in this volume return to Blumenberg's work to think once more about how and why we should value the modern. Written by a group of leading international and interdisciplinary researchers, this (...)
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  19. Jacob Taubes, the Jewish Hegelian.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2022 - In Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink & Hartmut von Sass (eds.), Depeche mode: Jacob Taubes between politics, philosophy, and religion. Boston: Brill.
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  20. Krytyka władzy jako strategia legitymizacyjna.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2001 - Civitas 5 (5):119-130.
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    Machina ex Deo: Game Theology in Kabbalah and Derrida.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2021 - Internationales Jahrbuch Für Medienphilosophie 7 (1):63-84.
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    Marański uniwersalizm. Benjamin, Derrida i Buck-Morss o kondycji uniwersalnego wygnania.Agata Bielik-Robson & Piotr Sadzik - 2019 - Etyka 58 (1):175-197.
    Esej ten kreśli nową strategię uniwersalizacji historii, która wyłania się z analizy żydowskiejpraktyki filozofowania w erze nowożytnej. Nazywam ją „strategią marańską”, budując analogięmiędzy sytuacją conversos, którzy zostali zmuszeni do przyjęcia chrześcijaństwa, przechowującprzy tym judaizm „utajony”, a filozoficzną interwencją nowoczesnych myślicieli żydowskich,którzy wkroczyli w idiom zachodniej filozofii, jednocześnie nasycając go motywami wywiedzionymiz ich „partykularnego” kontekstu: nie po to jednak, by podważyć perspektywęuniwersalistyczną, lecz po to, by ją przekształcić. Dla Waltera Benjamina i Jacques’a Derridywłaściwy uniwersalizm okazuje się równoznaczny z „zadaniem tłumacza”: projektem (...)
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  23. Nihilism as world politics : Benjamin's theology of entropy.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2024 - In Brendan P. Moran & Paula Schwebel (eds.), Walter Benjamin and political theology. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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    Na drugim brzegu nihilizmu: filozofia współczesna w poszukiwaniu nowego podmiotu.Agata Bielik-Robson - 1997 - Warszawa: IFiS PAN.
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    Promises and Excuses: Derrida and the Aporia of Narcissism.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2007 - Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (2):181-201.
  26. Przyszłość pewnej fantazji, czyli dlaczego romantyzm nie jest transcendentalizmem.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2004 - Principia 39.
     
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    The Messiah and the Great Architect: On the Difference Between the Messianic and the Utopian.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2018 - Utopian Studies 29 (2):133-158.
    The first [age] is in the servitude of slavery, the second in the servitude of sons, the third in freedom. The first in fear, the second in faith, the third in love. The first is the status of bondsmen, the second of freemen, the third of friends.What a violent, all-consuming, impetuous love! It thinks only of itself, lacks interest in anything else, despises all, is satisfied with itself! It confuses stations, disregards manners, knows no bounds. Proprieties, reason, decency, prudence, judgment (...)
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    Teologia pracy: asceza, kenoza, apokalipsa.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2020 - Civitas 26:13-45.
    The subject of this essay is the modern theology of work. Contrary to neoplatonism that condemned matter as unworthy of spiritual investment, theology of work states that matter is an ontological material that deserves further processing. Therefore, if modernity is to be understood as the beginning of the materialistic philosophy of immanence, early modern theological transformations have deeply contributed to this. Namely, the appreciation of matter as a realistically existing material to work through, the not yet ready and not fully (...)
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    The Post-Secular Turn: Enlightenment, Tradition, Revolution.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2019 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 3 (3):57-82.
    The aim of this essay is to give a general and accessible overview of the so called “post-secular” turn in the contemporary humanities. The main idea behind it is that it constitutes an answer to the crisis of the secular grand narratives of modernity: the Hegelian narrative of the immanent progress of the Spirit, as well as the enlightenmental narrative of universal emancipation. The post-secularist thinkers come in three variations which this essay names as Enlightenmental, Traditional, and Revolutionary. The first (...)
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  30. (1 other version)Tragedia rozwoju, czyli nowoczesność dzieckiem podszyta.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2003 - Sztuka I Filozofia (Art and Philosophy) 22:254.
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  31. To Refute God Himself: Talmud as Meta-Philosophy.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2024 - In Sergey Dolgopolski & James Adam Redfield (eds.), Talmud /and/ philosophy: conjunctions, disjunctions, continuities. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
     
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  32. Uwagi krytyczne o aktualnym stanie filozofii.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2005 - Ruch Filozoficzny 1 (1).
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  33. Wiping away the tears of Esau : Adorno's reconciliation with nature.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2022 - In Jakub Kowalewski (ed.), The Environmental Apocalypse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis. Routledge.
     
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  34. Wolność: spełniona zależność. Psychoanalityczna wykładnia pojęcia uwarunkowania.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2000 - Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 35 (3):93-107.
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  35. Will there be nothing rather than something? Ernst Bloch's overcoming of gnosticism.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2023 - In Henk de Berg & Cat Moir (eds.), Rethinking Ernst Bloch. Boston: Brill.
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    Will There Rather Be Nothing Than Something?Agata Bielik-Robson - 2022 - Civitas. Studia Z Filozofii Polityki 29:105-125.
    The purpose of this essay is to put Ernst Bloch’s philosophy to a test suggested by Hans Blumenberg in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. According to Blumenberg, modernity constitutes the second, successful, attempt at overcoming Gnosticism, after the first attempt, undertaken by Christianity, had failed. However – Blumenberg argues – it was not modern philosophy, but only science which had managed to escape Gnosticism’s ontological trap of viewing the world as an illusion bordering on nothing.
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    Faith and Knowledge, Reconsidered: Modern Religion and the “Time of Life”.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2021 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 5 (3):1-6.
    Preview: Almost twenty-five years have passed after the publication of Jacques Derrida’s 1996 seminal essay, “Faith and Knowledge: Religion at the Limits of Reason Alone,” one of the most important, but also most enigmatic post-secular texts of late modernity. Six articles in this issue are devoted directly to Derrida’s essay. The other two can also be read along them as dealing with broadly conceived post-secular issues. They all can be brought under the traditional heading of “faith and knowledge” – simultaneously (...)
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    The Human Difference: Beyond Nomotropism.Agata Bielik-Robson - 2017 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 1 (1):18-28.
    The main theme of this essay is f i n i t e l i f e, which is the bedrock of modern biopolitics. In the series of lectures devoted to the ‘birth of biopolitics,’ Michel Foucault defines it as a new system of ‘governing the living’ based on the natural cycle of birth and death, and the law of genesis kai phtora, ‘becoming and perishing.’ Foucault’s answer to modern biopolitics is to accept its basic premise – that life is (...)
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