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The Straussian Moment
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Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
For utilitarian thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and his contemporary followers, life as the maximizing of pleasure and the minimizing of pain implies that we can measure what is valuable. This fallacy equally applies to GDP, which fails to count unpaid work, all manner of relational goods and the shadow economy.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
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Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Beyond Secular Order: The Representation of Being and the Representation of the People (Illuminations: Theory & Religion)
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