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Justin Sledge
Education
MA, Religious Studies - Universiteit van Amsterdam
BA, Philosophy and Religious Studies - Millsaps College
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Research and Teaching
Justin's research interests have followed three general tracks.
  • developing and thinking ontologies of difference/multiplicity, specifically in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou and their ramifications for critiques of political-economy and psychoanalysis;
  • genealogically exploring non-canon philosophical figures and movements, especially those thinkers in the "western hermetic tradition," such as the uptake of Hellenistic philosophy into Gnostic and Hermetic thought and its inheritance in figures like Paracelsus, John Dee, Giordano Bruno and Jakob Böhme; and
  • praxical and philosophical Marxism including its uptake through critical theory, the inheritance of Leninism, and the recent work of rethinking "the communist hypothesis" in Negri, Badiou, and Žižek.

Justin also maintains teaching interests in religious studies, Jewish studies, and philosophy of religion.

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Contact Details
PhD student
Office: 313 Clement Hall
Email: jjsledge<at>memphis<dot>edu

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