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[...]... agency, on the one hand, andthe factors that make a meaningful life possible, on the other hand Projects of regenerating agency engage the religious imagination to synthesize the aims and aspirations ofthe political, the existential, andthe moral, as well as the yearning for ‘ the next self.’’8 Let me offer two examples ofthe contemporary discourse on agency to underscore these points The first example... to fight for freedom Consequently, the corollary of the thesis ofagency as melancholicfreedom is the banality of freedom: a condition in which the achievements of freedom, such as liberation, emancipatory movements, and autonomy, have become ordinary, even banal, in the sense that they are being taken for granted The banality offreedom is akin to the banality of evil the desensitization of our moral... sensibilities—that has taken hold in the political and moral landscape ofthe late and postmodern west.35 I am mel ancholic freedom 21 attempting to bring to light some ofthe religious dimensions of projects of regenerating agency, on the one hand, by framing the contemporary discourse on agency as melancholic freedom, and, on the other hand, by uncovering the presence and persistence of Romantic ideas such as... the one hand, an abandonment ofthe object of one’s passionate attachment or love and, on the other hand, letting go ofthe idea of one’s love for this object.32 As such, the melancholy of modernity marks the way that the symbolic loss of objects of attachment—such as religion or the spiritedness found in the emancipation movements that arose around the fights for racial justice in America—remains and. .. with agency as a persistent and necessary concern Lacanians persist with their own contemplations about the possibility of realizing agency, despite what they see as the unpredictable influence ofthe subconscious, on the one hand, andthe regulation of thought and action ofthe self, on the other hand, through the retrievals from ‘ the Symbolic Order.’’ In both cases—that is, in poststructuralism and. .. agencyandthe sources for motivating and inspiring action in light of this picture of modernity I have just sketched It is a question I raised earlier about the price paid for freedomandagencyThe narrative about modernity as secular and as increasingly prone to the demands of rationality is one that attempts to show how the legitimation offreedomandagency is mediated through the demands of and. .. uncover these features and qualities of religiosity is a critical and comparative examination of the work of two figures who have been enormously influential in shaping the contemporary discourse and debates on agencyandthe self/subjectivity: namely, Charles Taylor and Judith Butler.1 I draw on the work of Taylor and Butler in order to analyze the problem of agency, on the one hand, as a mode of action and. .. legitimation and mediation of authority through the will ofthe individual There is no agency without the individual will This is the reason theorists such as Taylor and Butler see the relationship between agencyand identity as fundamental For example, the necessity of the mediation of authority through human wills holds, on the one hand, for Kant andthe formal conditions he establishes for freedom as... in the desiring part of the soul; the ‘‘auxiliary’’ class is responsible for the care of the polis, likening it to spiritedness; the guardian classes are akin to utilitarian and calculating reasoning In the city andthe soul, the spirited parts maintain order and unity by checking against the divisive effects of unjust desires, that is, the threat of tyranny in the city/soul as well as the threat of. .. Agency, and Melancholy, 14 Thinking the Religious, the Moral, andthe Political Together, 17 2 Love ofthe Good among the Ruins, 23 Introduction, 23 Agency, Articulation, andthe Good, 24 Modern Moral Identity andthe Melancholy of Agency, 33 Love ofthe Good among the Ruins andthe Logic of Epiphany, 45 3 Through a Self Darkly, 55 Amazing Grace? 55 Rekindling a Love ofthe Good, or Being Good in a Heartless . analyze the problem of agency, on the one hand, as a mode of action and freedom and, on the other hand, as constitutive of moral, cultural, political, and spiritual identities. The critical trajectory. who took the various versions of my courses ‘ Freedom and the Discontents of Modernity’’ and ‘ The Spirit of Poli- tics’’ were exacting in their intellectual demands and challenges. Their enthu- siasm. Ricoeur and the Poetics of Moral Life John Wall Melancholic Freedom Agency and the Spirit of Politics david kyuman kim 1 2007 3 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford