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Christopher Craig Brittain is a Lecturer in the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He completed his Ph.D at the University of Toronto with a dissertation entitled "The Weight of Objectivity: Critical Social Theory and Theology." His research includes the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School, political theology, and the concept of secularism. He is currently working on a book-length study of the treatment of religion and theology in the thought of Theodor Adorno, as well as a project called Religion at Ground Zero.

Selected Publications:

2008. "Leo Strauss and Resourceful Odysseus: Rhetorical Violence and the Holy Middle," Canadian Review of American Studies, forthcoming

2007. "Biopolitics in the Messianic Light: On Giorgio Agamben,” Radical Philosophy Review 10(2 ):179-191.

2006. “From A Beautiful Mind to the Beautiful Soul: Rational Choice, Religion, and Adorno.” In: Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice, ed. Warren S. Goldstein, (Leiden, Boston: Brill Publishers), 151-177.

          (Paperback: Haymarket Books 2009)

2005. "The 'Secular' as a Tragic Category: On Talal Asad, Religion and Representation," in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 17(2, 149-165.

2005. “Social Theory and the Premise of all Criticism: Max Horkheimer on Religion,” Critical Sociology 31(1-2): 153-168.