Having escaped for a few seconds from the Commission, I had a chance to read many of the very interesting…
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
Varieties of Religion Today
In my first post, I discussed Charles Taylor’s book, A Catholic Modernity. I would now like to discuss a second…
Sex & aggression
I want to raise some questions about Taylor’s account of “our moral landscape” after the mainstreaming of the sexual revolution…
The other shore
For Lilla, Westerners are the exception because we live on what he calls “the other shore.” Civilizations on the “opposite…
The Godless Delusion
“For Taylor,” writes John Patrick Diggins in The New York Times Book Review, “belief is not what science finds but…
A Catholic Modernity?
Some readers of Sources of the Self, particularly its last few chapters, might have wondered how exactly Taylor’s indirect plea…
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
So what’s the problem? What’s the ethical crisis? For Taylor it is this: sexuality cannot carry the burden of the…
The missing all
Although technology may not possess a logic of its own, one would be hard pressed to deny its formative role…
A cautionary tale?
It would have been enough for Lilla to frame this book as an explanation of the genealogy of bourgeois protestant…
The great separation
One should be suspicious of any argument that presents the multiple alternatives facing contemporary societies around the world today as…