“Is this all there is?” can have practical meaning, e.g., “I asked for two dozen eggs, and you have only…
Simon During
Simon During is a Professorial Fellow at the School of Communication and Culture at the University of Melbourne. His books include Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (2002) and Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations (2012). He is currently working on a book on the idea of the humanities.
Reflections on summer reading
As the fall semester gets underway, we have again invited a number of contributors to The Immanent Frame to reflect…
Is absolute secularity conceivable?
Is absolute secularity conceivable? The question arises from the paradoxical intuition that the secularization thesis is simultaneously both right and…
Religion and state secularization
In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
Summer reading: Part I
Off the cuff is a new feature at The Immanent Frame, in which we pose a question to a handful…