In an illuminating exchange, Charles Hirschkind and Alireza Doostdar debate the compulsory quality of modern scientific reasoning. Doostdar, in The…
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A superstition of modernity
The question “Is this all there is?” is intended, presumably, to explore our hankerings for (or our phobias against) a…
Give me that digital religion
Every Sunday night in Omaha, Nebraska, a small group gathers in a United Church of Christ church lobby to watch…
The Fantastic Mr. Hobbes
Some readers of Minding the Modern have been surprised to find my account so firmly critical of Thomas Hobbes on will…
Modernity as a hermeneutic problem
I should thank the organizers at The Immanent Frame for hosting a forum on Minding the Modern and all respondents…
Ancient questions for modern answers
The central contrast in Thomas Pfau’s rich and rewarding book, Minding the Modern, is between two radically opposed views of…
Mindful love: On Thomas Pfau’s critical appropriation of Thomist moral theory
Thomas Pfau’s book Minding the Modern is a book of immense scope. About half the work (parts II and III) consists…
The shining and the shiny: An interview with Sean Dorrance Kelly
Sean Dorrance Kelly is chair of Harvard University’s philosophy department and has published on topics like cognitive science, philosophy of…
The politics of the atonement
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…
Understanding disenchantment
Jane Bennett’s sympathetic yet critical commentary on my essay "What is Enchantment?" (published in the volume Varieties of Secularism in…