1: The Politics of Immortality

This is the inaugural episode of the relaunched End of Law-podcast.

Tormod Johansen spoke with Mårten Björk about his newly published book The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg : Theology and Resistance Between 1914-1945. Mårten is a theologian and scholar of religion, at the Newman institute in Uppsala, researcher at CTR in Lund, and an associate fellow at Campion Hall in Oxford.

Two friends of the podcast joined:

Gian Giacomo Fusco who is a lecturer in law at Kent Law School, working on continental philosophy, legal and political theory with a specific emphasis on sovereignty, state of emergency and biopolitics.

And Kelsi Ray, who is a PhD candidate at Notre Dame's Medieval Institute, with a project on how Christians in the fourth and fifth centuries coped with bereavment through beliefs about death, resurrection as well as ritual practices.

Mårten started out in the episode describing his own background and how it led to the project of the book, as well as its central argument. The discussion then ranged from the meaning of life and immortality to the relation between theology and politics.

This podcast is produced by the End of Law research project in collaboration with the At the End of the World research programme.

Producer: Joel Kuhlin
Vignette music: Simon Hansson