Contents	6
	Acknowledgments	10
	References	12
	Chapter 1: Introduction	13
	Refusing the Presumptive Secularism of Cultural Studies	15
	The Ethics of Cultural Studies and, Perhaps, Faith?	20
	An Enunciative Practice of a Spiritual-Scholarly Profession	22
	A Profession of Faith on the Contested Ground of ‘Spirituality’	23
	Notes	27
	References	28
	Chapter 2: Towards a Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies	31
	Who or What Is Embarrassed by Matters of Faith?	32
	Governmentality, the Neoliberal Subject, and a Politics of Spirituality	37
	The Spirituality of White Collar Zen	43
	The Spirituality of Engaged Buddhism	46
	The Question of Meditative Experience	50
	Conclusion	51
	Notes	52
	References	53
	Chapter 3: Methods, Traditions, Liminal Identities	57
	A ‘Cultural Thing’	57
	Buddhist Theology and Buddhist Critical-­Constructive Reflection	60
	Autoethnographical Reflections of a Postcolonial ‘Western Buddhist’ Convert	64
	Portraits and Legacies of Buddhist Modernism	70
	The Insight (vipassan?) Meditation Movement	77
	The Reciprocal Development of Buddhist Critical-­Constructive Reflection and Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies	81
	Conclusion	85
	Notes	86
	References	87
	Chapter 4: Of Intellectual Hospitality, Buddhism and Deconstruction	91
	Constructivist Critique and the Soteriological Claim of Unmediated Awareness	93
	Dependent Co-arising and Différance	96
	Reconsidering the Buddhist Critique of Deconstruction	101
	Unconditional Unconditionality Unconditionally	107
	Conclusion	112
	References	114
	Chapter 5: The ‘Religious Question’ in Foucault’s Genealogies of Experience	117
	Part I: The Role of Experience in Foucault’s Oeuvre	119
	‘Experience’ as Constitutive Historical Conditions	119
	‘Experience’ as a Transformative Force	120
	‘Limit-Experience’, ‘Transgression’ and ‘Spiritual Corporality’	124
	Part II: The Turn to the Subject and Ethics	127
	The ‘Nietzschean Legacy’ and the Quest for a Different Morality	127
	Foucault’s ‘Iranian Experiment’	131
	Is ‘Political Spirituality’ Religious or Secular?	134
	Affirming the Messianicity of a Futural Politics	140
	Conclusion	143
	Note	144
	References	145
	Chapter 6: The Care of Self and Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies	149
	Problematisation and the Arts of Existence	150
	Foucault’s Fourfold Analysis of Ethics and the Care of Self	152
	The Double Articulation of the Self in Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies	156
	Conclusion	160
	References	161
	Chapter 7: A Foucauldian Analysis of Vipassana and a Buddhist Art of Living	163
	Mindfulness of Bodily Sensation (Ethical Substance/the Material Fold)	165
	The Decision to ‘Let Go’ (Mode of Subjection/the Fold of Relations Between Forces)	169
	Dissolving the Habits of the Self (Ethical Work/the Fold of Truth)	172
	Limit-Experience and the Body as Event (Telos/the Fold of the Outside)	178
	Conclusion	184
	Notes	187
	References	189
	Chapter 8: Buddhist Critical Thought and an Affective Micropolitics of (Un)Becoming	191
	An Emergent Buddhist Critical/Social Theory	192
	Affect and Biopower	198
	The Intersensory Dynamics of Perception	205
	The Anticipatory Triggers of Perception	207
	The Influence of Discipline on Perceptual Processes	209
	The Ethico-Political Fecundity of Dwelling in Moments of Duration	213
	Conclusion	215
	Notes	216
	References	217
	Chapter 9: A Profession of Faith	220
	Is Buddhist Faith Blind?	221
	The Undecidability of Faith and Faith in Undecidability	232
	Debating the Im-possible: Radical Atheism Against God	234
	Between an Immanent and Transcendent Horizon of Faith	240
	Awaiting the ‘Perhaps’ with Derrida and Foucault	247
	The Faith of Cultural Studies, Perhaps?	249
	Conclusion	252
	Notes	254
	References	255
	Chapter 10: Conclusion	258
	The Micropolitics of the Neoliberal University	259
	A Profession of Faith for the University Without Condition	264
	Scholarly Affect and the Work of Friendship	268
	Note	271
	References	271
	Bibliography	274
	Index	275