What Have I Been Doing All My Life?
Reflections on my work from the Association of Philosophy and Literature annual conference
In a previous post, I reflected on some major milestones I had achieved, namely the first promotion of my career and the approval of my first sabbatical leave. I neglected to mention a third milestone that was in many ways intertwined with them: a session on my work at the Association for Philosophy and Literature conference in Frankfurt this fall. This major honor was actually the first academic event I did after receiving my promotion, and the session itself took place on the day the sabbatical applications were due (though in characteristic fashion, I did mine well in advance). Now the papers have been published by The Oxford Literary Review Supplement—beginning on the very day I learned my sabbatical application was approved!
Peter Gratton: “Adam Kotsko’s Political Theology: An Introduction”
Nils Richber: “Left Over: Towards a Post-Apocalyptic Reading of Political Theology”
Peter Gratton: “A Hell Without End? Neoliberalism and the Grift Society”
Jay Martin: “‘Every God Has a Devil for a Father’: The Disappearing of the Devil in Hegel”
Adam Kotsko: “What Have I Been Doing All My Life? A Response”
Thank you to Peter for arranging the session and publication (and serving as both presider/introducer and presenter), to Jonathan Basile at the Oxford Literary Review Supplement for hosting the published roundtable, and to all the panelists for just hanging out and showing me a good time in Frankfurt. The only legitimate reason to do the kind of work we do is to make friends—and I am grateful to old and new friends who made the time to discuss my work.