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The essay proposes a critical reading of the volume “Penser la tolérance durant l’Antiquité Tardive”, published
by Peter Van Nuffelen in 2018, which collects the results of four conferences given by the author at the École Pratique
des Hautes Études in April of 2013. It is one of the last and most consistent products of current historiographic research
on the subject of late antique religious tolerance. The volume is valued and discussed in its main topics and in its methodological

In this essay I would like to introduce three possible models for dealing philosophically with a theological-religious object. These three models are illustrated by three concepts, namely, analogy, paradox and dispositive. However, the three models also correspond to approaches of three disciplines, namely natural theology, philosophy of religion and political theology. What is usually called «philosophy of religion» is in fact stricto sensu only a historically determined way of philosophically exploring transcendence.

The aim of this paper is to analyze use and development of some central concepts in the Italian Contemporary Thought - as General Intellect, Biopolitics, Political Theology, Economic Theology, Debt. The interest is that to reflect on some critical moments, in order to identify new possibilities still open for the future in the same weaknesses.

The aim of this paper is to focus the use and development of some key concepts of the Italian contemporary thought – as, for example, General Intellect, Biopolitics, Political Theology, Economic Theology, Debt – in order to reflect on some critical moments and to identify new possibilities still open for the future. In this regard, in the final part of the text, particular attention is given to Giorgio Agamben’s thought.

Max Weber’s account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, almost essential, for maintaining the economic cycle of buying and selling.

This article traces a developmental trajectory in Schmitt’s conception of law that brings out
alternative conceptualizations of the exception. “Transcendence”, “immanence” and
“integration” signify three different models to represent the relation between what I call
“nomic force” (the particular phenomenon of bringing order) and “materiality” (the matter-offactness
of a particular entity or phenomenon). I contend that while Political Theology feeds off a
transcendent model, where a sovereign decider makes materiality speakable, The Concept of the