Political Demonology: The Logic of Evil in Contemporary Literature and Theology

This conference brings philosophers of religion, political theorists and literary scholars together to frame approaches to the problem of political evil–a project one might call ‘political demonology’–for our contemporary political and cultural crisis.

  • 37 minutes 44 seconds
    Shakespeare and Machiavellian Politics of Violence, Closing Keynote
    Closing Keynote: Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford) gives the closing keynote for the Political Demonologies conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 10:31 am
  • 25 minutes
    The pessimistic anthropology of liberalism vs. the Good
    Adrian Pabst (University of Kent) gives a talk for Session 3: Demonologies of the Soul – Beyond Evil, part of the Political Demonologies conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 10:26 am
  • 25 minutes 40 seconds
    Going Beyond Evil in Theory, Politics and Practice
    Max Muir (University of Oxford) gives a talk in session 3 Demonologies of the Soul – Beyond Evil, part of the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 10:19 am
  • 24 minutes 24 seconds
    ‘“Political Theology” or “Occasional Decisionism”? On the Formal Character of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology’
    Bruno Godefroy (Universities of Erlangen and Lyon) gives a talk in Session 2: Political (Dis-) Orders, part of the Political Demonologies conference held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 10:06 am
  • 27 minutes 2 seconds
    The Dialectics of Individualism and Totalitarianism in Charles de Koninck, David Foster Wallace, and Michel Houellebecq
    Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. (Heiligenstift, Austria), gives the first talk in Session 2: Political (Dis-) Orders, part of the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 9:53 am
  • 17 minutes 30 seconds
    Modernist Myths of the Fall
    Henry Mead (Teesside University) gives the third talk in Session 1, (Demono-) Logics, at the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 9:47 am
  • 22 minutes 5 seconds
    The Two Deaths of Osama Bin Laden –Demonic Repetition in Contemporary Culture
    Tom Grimwood (University of Cumbria) gives the second talk for Session 1; (Demono-) Logics Political Demonology conference, held in Worcester College on 20th May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 9:43 am
  • 53 minutes 42 seconds
    The Nightmare that Dreams: The Soul and Nihilism - Opening Keynote
    Conor Cunningham (University of Nottingham) gives the opening keynote in the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College Oxford on 20the May 2016.
    13 September 2016, 9:39 am
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