Good words from the estimable Guy Stroumsa on my new book: "This fresh, insightful understanding of the figure of Jesus succeeds in turning the tables... The work of Giorgio Agamben on Paul is perhaps the closest parallel I can think of."
Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury
David Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher, historian of ideas, Times Literary Supplement contributor and senior fellow at Budapest's Danube Institute. The author of I Judge No One and The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (published by Hurst and Oxford University Press), he is also Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Antwerp.
“Religion of the heart”: Geoffrey Hill
Religion of the heart, with trysts & quests & pangs of consolation - Geoffrey Hill Geoffrey Hill, 1984
Correcting the proofs: “I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus” (Hurst, 2022)
Bruckner’s “Stille Betrachtung an einem Herbstabend”
In anticipation of October evenings, Bruckner's gorgeous little autumn nocturne ---
“I Judge No One” in Hurst Catalogue: Autumn-Winter 2022
Great to see the Autumn-Winter Hurst Catalogue in print, in DC. I Judge No One is featured on p 16: "How can the narratives of the gospels, & their interpretation through the centuries, explain the highly political death of a deeply spiritual figure?" Out in December.
R. E. Winn on The Innocence of Pontius Pilate
Very pleased to see that a noted historian of early Christianity (& author of an excellent book on Eusebius of Emesa), R. E. Winn, has called The Innocence of Pontius Pilate "unique and incisive", "necessary reading [on] the influence of the Christian tradition on western society".
Gould’s Brahms —
It's good to find myself listening to an old disc of Glenn Gould's Brahms. I care less & less for his spare, pointillist play -- but, with Brahms, it's somehow revelatory. The romantic wave becomes light-bearing particles in his hands.
Patočka seminars at the University of Oxford
A very tranquil Oriel College, Oxford. I'm delighted to be giving a couple of seminars here, today & tomorrow, on the late-Cold War philosopher Jan Patočka.
“Only the angels would be acquitted”
"Before an absolute tribunal, only the angels would be acquitted." If you like this line by Emil Cioran, you'll like my next Hurst Publishers book on the gospels -- from which, through lines I sketch, anti-Christian Cioran takes his insight. Out in December --
Visiting professorship in Milan
I am very pleased to be joining the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, next semester, as visiting professor of the Centro di Studi Patristici "Genesis" - which is chaired by the great Claudio Moreschini.
D. L. Dusenbury 