Omnia El Shakry’s The Arabic Freud is both admirably ambitious in its quest to map “the topography of modern selfhood”…
Vectors of translation
intellectual history
Mere Civility—An introduction
At the height of the 2016 American presidential election, a colleague asked whether I was worried that my forthcoming book…
The Weimar Century
The international turn in intellectual history, which David Armitage announced in 2014, has evolved into a surge of publications on…
Is secularism still Christian?
In January 2013, hundreds of thousands of French Catholics marched down the streets of Paris to protest the “Marriage For…
Minding hermeneutics and history
Minding the Modern is unusual in several respects. It is organized historically but anti-historicist, methodologically self-aware yet critical of “method,”…
Is absolute secularity conceivable?
Is absolute secularity conceivable? The question arises from the paradoxical intuition that the secularization thesis is simultaneously both right and…
Remembering a different evangelicalism
Celebrating the ideological diversity of contemporary evangelicalism, Marcia Pally heralds the advent of a religious non-right. Shattering stereotypes of a…
Secularism and atheism: a discussion at the Institute for Advanced Study
Stefanos Geroulanos’s An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought---the subject of an ongoing forum here at The…
An atheism a theologian can love
“Strangely enough,” Foucault mused, “man—the study of whom is supposed by the naïve to be the oldest investigation since Socrates—is…
Catholicism, conservatism, and antihumanist politics
Geroulanos’s central thesis is compelling but simple: French antihumanism, in its theoretical mode, was based on a radicalized “negative anthropology,”…