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A conversation with Adam Kotsko about his new book What is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life, published by Fordham University Press in late-2021.

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This discussion is with Adam Kotsko, who teaches in the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He has published widely in popular and academic outlets on theology, political theory, and philosophy, with particular emphasis on politics and the history of Christian thought. Adam has authored ten books, including recent works The Prince of this World in 2016 and Neoliberalism’s Demons in 2018, both with Stanford University Press, and 2020’s Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory with Edinburgh University Press. His new book, which is our occasion for conversation today, is titled What is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life, published in late-2021 by Fordham University Press. We discuss the origins of the book, his recasting of the question of politics, theology, and political theology, and the implications of this recasting for theorizing our political moment, modernity, and the history of race and racialization.