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Michael A. Gillespie CV

Professor of Political Science
Political Science
Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
204G Gross Hall, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles


The Theological Origins and Underpinning of the Longing for Total Revolution

Journal article Critical Review · January 1, 2021 The longing for total revolution described in Bernard Yack’s seminal book, which he analyzes as an effort to find a place for human freedom and morality in a world governed by natural necessity, can be traced to Reformation debates between predestinarian C ... Full text Cite

On Debt and Redemption: Friedrich Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence

Journal article Journal of Religious Ethics · June 1, 2018 In this essay, I argue that the notion of monetary debt does not displace but merely conceals our deeper, ontological debt to the sources of our being and way of life. I suggest that first Christianity and then modern science attempted to find a means of r ... Full text Cite

Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing?

Journal article · 2014 Cite

In the Shadow of Modernity

Journal article · 2014 Cite

Question for Fuller

Journal article First Things · 2014 Cite

Jean Elshtain: In Memorium

Journal article Review of Politics · 2013 Cite

'March Madness'

Journal article The Point · 2011 Cite

Political Anti-Theology: Mark Lilla’s The Stillborn God

Journal article Critical Review · March 2010 Cite

Afterword

Journal article · 2007 Cite

Philosophy and Rhetoric in Kant's Third Antinomy

Journal article Political Science Reviewer · 2001 Cite

The Theological Origins of Modernity

Journal article Critical Review · 1999 Cite

Nietzsche and the Premodernist Critique of Postmodernity

Journal article Critical Review · October 1997 Cite

Books in Review

Journal article Political Theory · February 1992 Full text Cite

Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education

Journal article Academic Question · 1990 Cite

History and Temporality in the Thought of Heidegger

Journal article Revue Internationale de Phiosophie · 1989 Cite