Dr. Neil Rogachevsky Contributes to Essays about Michel Houellebecq鈥檚 Submission
Nov 21, 2021 By: yunews
By Samuel GelmanCommunications and Program OfficerDr. Neil Rogachevsky, associate director and assistant professor at the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, recently published a chapter in Brill鈥檚 , a collection of essays on French writer鈥檚 2015 novel, Submission.
Dr. Rogachevsky鈥檚 paper, 鈥淢ichel Houellebecq鈥檚 Comparative Political Science of Religion,鈥 analyzes the 鈥渃urrent state of debate on the role of religion in the contemporary world.鈥 Dr. Rogachevsky makes the case that 鈥渙ur understanding of both religion and politics is marred by our tendency, encouraged by contemporary social science, to think of religion as a generic category and thus abstract from decisive differences between specific religions.鈥 Houellebecq鈥檚 Submission, however, 鈥渁ttempts to portray what religion and religious belief look like from the inside,鈥 thus helping us to imagine how adherents of Islam, Christianity and Judaism might see the world.
Dr. Rogachevsky/Northeastern Political Science Association
鈥淚 was pleased to contribute an essay on French writer Michel Houellebecq鈥檚 treatment of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in his satirical novel Submission in Michel Houllebecq: Cassandra of Freedom,鈥 said Dr. Rogachevsky. 鈥淗ouellebecq is an important if frequently misunderstood writer who can help illuminate and enrich our own literary and political ideas today.鈥
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Dr. Rogachevsky鈥檚 research interests are Israel studies and the history of political thought. His first book, which addresses the political theory of the founding of Israel, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2022. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge in 2014.
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Dr. Neil Rogachevsky, associate director and assistant professor at the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, recently published a chapter in Brill鈥檚 , a collection of essays on French writer鈥檚 2015 novel, Submission.
Dr. Rogachevsky鈥檚 paper, 鈥淢ichel Houellebecq鈥檚 Comparative Political Science of Religion,鈥 analyzes the 鈥渃urrent state of debate on the role of religion in the contemporary world.鈥 Dr. Rogachevsky makes the case that 鈥渙ur understanding of both religion and politics is marred by our tendency, encouraged by contemporary social science, to think of religion as a generic category and thus abstract from decisive differences between specific religions.鈥 Houellebecq鈥檚 Submission, however, 鈥渁ttempts to portray what religion and religious belief look like from the inside,鈥 thus helping us to imagine how adherents of Islam, Christianity and Judaism might see the world.
Dr. Rogachevsky/Northeastern Political Science Association
