When I first heard about Yuri Slezkine’s new book, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, I…
Bolshevism, Orthodoxy, and secularization in Russia
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Secular, sacred, Yiddish, Jewish
In considering immanentism, it is difficult not to imagine it in religious terms. This is all the more so when…
Future fanatics of world literature?
While this future world literature is hospitable—more broadly, to aspiring critics, and, in a more specialized sense, to literary scholars…
Radical Secularization?
In a discussion in the German press about the displacement of continental philosophy in Europe by the increasingly triumphant advance…
God in the Enlightenment
In a speech before the Brexit vote, Boris Johnson offered a controversial historical pedigree for his campaign to leave the…
Beyond the Secular State? Secularism, Empire, and Hegemony
Monday, November 14, 6:15 to 8:00 p.m. 403 Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University Three orders of questions regarding secularism—genealogical, philosophical,…
Religion, secularism, and Black Lives Matter
In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault: An introduction
Traditionally, Western thought framed human life as evolving in a three-dimensional space: the economic, the political, and the philosophical. Nowadays,…
Secularization histories as cultural-political programs
In a The Immanent Frame post on buffered selves, Charles Taylor commented that “The process of disenchantment, involving a change…
Invisible Hands
Jonathan Sheehan and Dror Wahrman’s Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century presents a fascinating exploration of the proliferating logics…