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Minding the Modern
Ancient questions for modern answers
by Mark Alznauer...something is to deliberately act on some conception of the good; the telos of agency is reached only by our conscious participation in the permanent and rational order of things....
Book reviews
Invisible Hands
by Alex Dubilet...asked. What is the role of colonialism and slavery, both historically and theoretically, for these emergent discourses of self-organization? Slavery and colonialism are, surprisingly, almost entirely absent from Invisible Hands,...
here & there
Religion and healthcare
by Rebecca Sager...essentially come down to selfishness: I honestly hope that someone will correct me about this, but it seems to me that the objections to health care reform always come down...
Reconsidering civil religion
A Neo-Weberian theory of American civil religion
by Philip S. Gorski...were institutionally separate, but partly derived, nevertheless, from organized religion. The American civil religion, he argued, was derived from two sources, one religious and the other secular: namely, the covenant...
Minding the Modern
Stacking the deck: Thomas Pfau’s strange history of the West
by Victoria Kahn...commitments clearly outrun his arguments.” This is probably inevitable, no matter what one’s commitments are. Ultimately, I think, Pfau’s argument comes down to providing reasons for faith. I admire him...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
Facing death alone: Mortuary prospects for the socially solo in Japan
here & there
The post-secular: A different account
by Vincent P. Pecora...early version of Johannes Fabian’s “denial of coevalness,” in his Time and the Other—through “democratically enlightened common sense.” However, what this “common sense” means for Habermas—“a translation of religious positions”...
here & there
God’s place in the inauguration
by Laura Duane...rejection of religion as the religious folks to whom they object. Like the fanatically religious, the fanatically secular insist that one can only bring their voice to the public square...