{"id":2978,"date":"2020-01-22T04:19:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T09:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=2978"},"modified":"2020-02-22T02:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T07:20:21","slug":"pamplona-social-justice-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/pamplona-social-justice-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Pamplona Social Justice lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Discourse of Social Justice in a Negative Theological Perspective,\u201d Lecture Series: Lecturas sobre religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, January 21, 2020<\/h2>\n

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Religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil<\/strong>\u200f\u00a0<\/span><\/span>@rsc_ics<\/b><\/span><\/a> Jan 16<\/span><\/a> <\/small><\/p>\n

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Next #<\/s>SeminarioRSC<\/b><\/a>, Jan. 21, 6.30 pm @<\/s>ICS_unav<\/b><\/a>: @<\/s>VanderbiltU<\/b><\/a> Comparative Literature Prof. William Franke, “On the Universality of What is Not: The #<\/s>Apophatic<\/b><\/a> Turn in #<\/s>criticalthinking<\/b><\/a>“<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Postmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable<\/a><\/h3>\n

Beyond the proliferating multiplicity of identities in the contemporary political arena based on cultures, languages, regions, religions, nations, sexes, classes, and special interests, what makes us truly one without limits, without exclusions and restrictions\u2014is nothing. Precisely Nothing. And nothing is more important for us to grasp than this, in order to be able to live together on our shrinking, globalized planet. This nothing is the nothing specifiable or stateable of the single individual, the person herself or himself intimated or divined behind or beyond all categories and groupings into which his or her specific differences can be fit. It is the nakedness of our person. That is what is truly universal. All fundamentally are<\/em> this nakedness: in it alone, all are equal. Without any support from outside, without superiority of class, gender, race, or social standing, the naked self stands alone in the dignity of having nothing to disguise it or to answer for it, no alibi but itself. As such, each of us can stand out, ex-ist <\/em>(from the Greek \u1f35\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03bc\u03b9, to stand or make stand) in the full stature of our uniqueness and, at the same time, our universality.\u00a0 This is a universality of being nothing\u2014nothing that can be said or specified.<\/p>\n

William Franke<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Discourse of Social Justice in a Negative Theological Perspective,\u201d Lecture Series: Lecturas sobre religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil, Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, January 21, 2020 https:\/\/twitter.com\/rsc_ics Religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil\u200f\u00a0@rsc_ics Jan 16   Next #SeminarioRSC, Jan. 21, 6.30 pm @ICS_unav: @VanderbiltU Comparative Literature Prof. William Franke, “On the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2978\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}