Carlos Andrés Segovia

Carlos Andrés Segovia y Corral, 2nd Marquis of Salobreña (born 22 May 1970) is a Spanish nobleman and academic specialising in philosophy and religious studies.

The Most Illustrious The Marquis of Salobreña
Philosopher and scholar of religion Carlos A. Segovia
Background information
Birth name	Carlos Andrés Segovia y Corral
Born	(1970-05-22)22 May 1970
Occupation(s)	Academic

He is a reader in religious studies at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain.[1]

While over the past ten years he has mostly worked on late-antique religion (with special emphasis on the intertwining of group-identity markers, sectarian boundaries, discursive strategies, and more generally the conceptualisation of hybridity and ambiguity in religious origins, as a means to counter present-day religious fundamentalism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia), his current research focuses instead on contemporary philosophy at the crossroads of religious studies and anthropological theory along three intersecting axes: (1) the analysis of capitalism’s religious matrix and semiotic structure, and of its counter-figures, against the background of today’s cosmopolitical crisis, in dialogue with the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari; (2) the study of extra-modern, especially animist, ontologies, and the subsequent revision of conceptual production in the social sciences and the humanities vis-à-vis today’s hegemonic regimes of power/knowledge, in dialogue with the work of Lévi-Strauss; and (3) the post-nihilist rethinking of dwellingness and, thereby, of the differences between earth, world, and unworld, in dialogue with both Heidegger’s late philosophy and non-religious Greek views on the sacred. He is also series co- editor of Apocalypticism: Cross-disciplinary Explorations at Peter Lang.[2]

He is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles, including the monographs Immanence and the Sacred,[3] The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet: A Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity,[4] and The Quranic Jesus: A New Interpretation;[5] the edited volume Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories;[6] and articles like "Spinoza as Savage Thought," [7] "Post-Heideggerian Drifts: From Object-Oriented-Ontology Worldlessness to Post-Nihilist Worldings," [8] and "The New Animism: Experimental, Isomeric, Liminal, and Chaosmic"; [9] plus he writes regularly on philosophy on polymorph.blog.[10]

He is the youngest child of the celebrated classical guitarist Andrés Segovia, the first Marquis of Salobreña.[11]