Secular modernity is marked by a persistent project of separating the modern body from its waste, masking excremental operations, and…
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Catholic Modern: An introduction
The Church, like no other institution of its size, is beholden to its past. That past is, however, often misunderstood.…
What it isn’t: Or, historical periodization by erasure
“What epoch is this we are entering or have entered? What is this time? What time is it?” To answer,…
Spiral glimpses
This anniversary forum invites us to think together about epochal entrance, temporal markings, defining frames, and what the forum’s curators…
Radical Secularization?
In a discussion in the German press about the displacement of continental philosophy in Europe by the increasingly triumphant advance…
On inclusion
In a recent piece in The New York Times’ column The Stone, philosophers Jay L. Garfield and Bryan W. Van…
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…
Playing God
In his new book Minding the Modern, Thomas Pfau presents a searching, and often scathing, indictment of the modern regime…
Thomas Pfau and the emergence of the modern individual
Here I will argue that Thomas Pfau’s presentation of modernity in Minding the Modern fails to incorporate both the sociopolitical…
Minding the other modernities
Let me start with a confession. I am not particularly keen on stories of modernity in which “modernity” figures as…