Simon During

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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.

Is this all there is

The soft side

Simon During·

November 29, 2017

“Is this all there is?” can have practical meaning, e.g., “I asked for two dozen eggs, and you have only…

Rethinking secularism

Is absolute secularity conceivable?

Simon During·

July 1, 2013

Is absolute secularity conceivable? The question arises from the paradoxical intuition that the secularization thesis is simultaneously both right and…

Secularism: Its Content and Context

Religion and state secularization

Simon During·

February 2, 2012

In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…