Clayton Crockett
Assistant Professor, Department of
Philosophy and Religion
(501) 450-5506
ClaytonC@uca.edu
Education
Ph.D.,
Dissertation: "The Theological Sublime:
Subjectivity, Temporality and Imagination in the
Kantian Critique." Advisor: Charles E. Winquist.
M.A.,
B.A.,
Specialization
Areas of
Research Specialization:
Modern and Contemporary Western Religious Thought,
Kantian Sublime, 19th and 20th Century
Philosophy and Theology, Psychoanalytic Theory, Contemporary Continental
Philosophy of Religion.
Areas of
Teaching Competence:
Modern and Contemporary Religious Thought and
Theology,
World Religions, History of Christianity and Christian Thought,
Theory of Religion, Ethics, Religion in
Teaching Experience
Assistant
Professor of Religion
Modern
Religious Thought, Introduction to World Religions, Theories of Religion,
Religion, Science and Technology, Postmodern Theology, Exploring Religion.
Visiting
Assistant Professor of Religion
Introduction
to Religion, Modern Religious Thought, Christianity, Roman Catholic Thought Since 1800.
Adjunct Professor
of Religion and Philosophy Fall
2001-Spring 2003
Literature of the Old Testament, World
Religions, Religion in
Adjunct
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Ethics,
Introduction to Philosophy, Religion in
Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and
Psychoanalytic Theory,
forthcoming (under
contract).
Editor, Religion
and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology,
University
of Virginia Press, forthcoming, 2006 (in press).
A Theology of the Sublime, Routledge, 2001.
Editor, Secular Theology: American Radical Theological
Thought, Routledge, 2001.
“Technology and the Time-Image: Deleuze and
Postmodern Subjectivity,” South
African Journal of Philosophy,
Volume 24, Number 3, 2005.
“Post-Modernism
and its Secrets: Religion Without Religion,” Cross Currents, Volume
52,
Number 4, Winter 2003.
“On Sublimation:
The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Study of Religion,” Journal of
the
“The Challenge
of Postmodernism and the Health of Theology,” Journal of Religion and
Health, Volume 39, Number 3, 2000.
“Anxiety and the
Sublime Body of God,” Journal for
Cultural and Religious Theory 1:1, December
1999.
“Tillich and Foucault in the Depths of
Reason,” Explorations: Journal for Adventurous
Thought, Volume 14, Number 1, Fall 1995.
“Radical
Theology and the Event: Deleuze avec
Ward
Blanton, Creston Davis, and Hent de Vries, Duke University Press, forthcoming.
“On the Freedom
of Radical Theology,” Radical Theology:
The New
Generation, edited by Lissa McCullough,
forthcoming.
Entries for
“Philosophy of Religion,” “Theology of Culture,” and “Ontology,” Handbook for
Religious Studies, edited by Ken Lokensgard and Oz Lorentzen, Davies Group
Publishers, forthcoming.
“The Double Helix: Of
Philosophical Theology,” in Between Description and Interpretation:
The Hermeneutic Turn in Phenomenology, edited by
Andre Wiercinski, The
Hermeneutic
Press, 2005.
“Foreclosing
God: Philosophy of Religion and Psychoanalysis,” in Explorations in
Contemporary Continental Philosophy of
Religion, edited by
Deane-Peter Baker and Patrick Maxwell, Rodopi, 2003.
“Gilles Deleuze
and the Sublime Fold of Religion,” in Rethinking
Philosophy of Religion:
Approaches from Continental Philosophy, edited by Philip Goodchild, Fordham
University Press, 2002.
Foreword to
Gabriel Vahanian, Anonymous God,
translated by Noëlle Vahanian, Davies
Group Publishers, 2001.
Entries for
“Aporia” “Donna Haraway,” “Immanuel Kant,” “Plane of Immanence,”
“Avital
Ronnell,” “Richard Rorty,” “Sublime,” and “Gianni Vattimo,”
Encyclopedia
of Postmodernism, edited by Charles E. Winquist and Victor E. Taylor,
Routledge, 2000.
Foreword to
Charles E. Winquist, Epiphanies of Darkness,
Davies Group Publishers
(reprinting), 1999.
“On the
Disorientation of the Study of Religion,” in What is Religion?: Origins,
Definitions & Explanations, edited by Thomas A. Idinopulos and
Brian C. Wilson, Brill Academic Publishers, 1998.
“
“Long Time
Coming: Theology, Methodology, Cultural Theory,” Journal for Cultural and
Religious
Theory 5.2, April 2004.
“Piety, Power
and Bare Life: What in the World is Going on in the Name of Religion?,” Journal
for Cultural and
Religious Theory 4:3,
August 2003.
“Taking Shape:
On the Current Constellation of (Religious) Thought,” Journal for
Cultural and Religious Theory 3:3, August 2002.
“Economies of
Studying Religion,” Journal for Cultural
and Religious Theory 1:3,
August
2000.
Theology and the Political: The New Debate, ed. Creston Davis, John Milbank and Slavoj
Zizek
(Duke University Press, 2005). Journal
of the
forthcoming,
2006.
The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston
Smith on the Spiritual Life, ed. Phil Cousineau
(
Philosophy,
History and Science, Volume 12, No.3/4, Fall/Winter 2005.
Propaganda and
the Jesuit Baroque, Evonne Levy (
Bridges:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and
Science, Volume 11
No.3/4, Fall/Winter 2004.
Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light, Paul Virilio (Athlone Press, 2002).
Theoria 102,
December
2003.
Revolt, She Said, Julia Kristeva (Semiotext(e),
2002). Theoria 101, June 2003.
The Fragile Absolute: Or,
Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, Slavoj Zizek
(Verso Books, 2000). Theoria
99, June 2002.
Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and
Lacan, Louis Althusser,
translated by Jeffrey
Mehlman (Columbia University Press,
1996). Theoria 98, December 2001.
Contributions to Philosophy (From
Enowning), Martin
Heidegger, translated by Parvis
Emad and Kenneth Maly (Indiana University
Press, 1999). Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
2.3, August 2001.
The Other Freud: Religion,
Culture and Psychoanalysis, James J. DiCenso (
Routledge, 1999).
Journal of Religion and Health,
Volume 39, Number 1, 2000.
Post-Secular Philosophy, edited by Philip Blond (London:
Routledge, 1998). Religion, Volume 29, Number 8, April 1999.
Nietzsche and Depth Psychology, edited by Jacob Golomb, Weaver Santaniello,
and
Ronald
Lehrer (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999). Journal of Religion and Health, Volume 38, 1999.
The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger,
Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory,
William McNeill (Albany: SUNY
Press, 1999). Journal
of Religion and Health, Volume 38, 1999.
Arguing for Atheism, Robin Le Poidevin (New York: Routledge,
1996). Religious Studies Review, Volume 23, Number 4, October 1997.
Conference Presentations/Lectures
“The
Truth of Life: Michel Henry on Marx,” Society for Continental Philosophy and
Theology,
“Deleuze
and
Regional Meeting,
“Post-Secular
Spinoza: On the Potential for a Radical Political Theology,” Secularity and
Globalization: What Comes After
Modernity? The Fifth Annual Lilly Fellows Program National Research Conference,
“Deleuze
and Postmodern Subjectivity: Technology, Time-Image and Self-Perception,”
Society
for
Phenomenology and the Human Sciences,
Co-organizer and
co-presider, “The Religious Turn in Culture and Theory,” panel session
with John D. Caputo, Philip Goodchild and Gregg Lambert, AAR/SBL
Annual Meeting,
Panel
Participant, “A Theology of Desire: In Memory of Charles E. Winquist,” AAR/SBL
Annual
Meeting,
Invited Lecture,
“Kant, Deleuze and the Baroque Sublime,”
“Postmodernism
and its Secrets,” Secrecy: Histories and Publics Conference, Sweet Briar
College,
VA, March 15-17, 2002.
Organizer and
presider, “Postmodern Secular Theology,” panel session with Edith
Wyschogrod,
John D. Caputo, Carl Raschke, Charles E. Winquist and Gabriel Vahanian, AAR/SBL
Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 18-21, 2000.
“Gilles Deleuze
and the Sublime Fold of Religion,” Continental Philosophy of Religion
Conference, St. Martin’s College,
“God Without Being (God)” AAR/SBL Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting,
March
23-24, 2000
“Economies of
Studying Religion,” Religious Studies and Cultural Engagement:
University
Department of Religion Alumni and Graduate Student Conference,
“Radical
Orthodoxy and Secular Theology: A Confrontation,” panel presentation and discussion with John Milbank, Phillip Blond,
Charles E. Winquist, and Alex Hawkins,
AAR/SBL Annual Meeting,
“On Creation ex Nihilo: Tillich and Psychoanalysis,”
AAR/SBL Annual Meeting,
“The Ethics of Psychoanalysis,” AAR/SBL
Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting,
“Freud and
Theology,” AAR/SBL Eastern International Region Meeting,
“The End of the
Century and the Task for Theology,” AAR/SBL Eastern International Region
Meeting,
D'Youville College,
“Aesthetics After Kant,” AAR/SBL Eastern International Region Meeting,
LeMoyne College,
“Tillich and
Foucault in the Depths of Reason,” AAR/SBL Tri-Regional Meeting,
MA,
March 30-April 1, 1995.
Activities
Asian Studies
Development Program three-week Institute on Infusing Asian Studies into the
Faculty
Curriculum,
Interviewed for
a feature-length documentary, Silhouette
City, written and directed by Michael
Editorial
Advisory Board, Blackwell Religion Compass on-line project, Blackwell,
2005-present.
Co-Editor with
Jeffrey W. Robbins, Book Series on “Contemporary Religious Thought,” The
Davies Group, Publishers, 2001-present.
Editor, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
(peer-reviewed on-line journal),
1999-present. www.jcrt.org
Student Liaison,
American
Awards
Council competitive award.
Phi
Kappa Phi, 1996.
Theta
Alpha Kappa, 1996.
References
Available
upon request.