Sublime

“Academic life has become more professionalised. They write for each other, not for the general reader. Academic political philosophy ­today, for example, has zero influence on the practice of politics. I doubt now whether any politician could name a leading academic philosopher. No one would know who they were.”

— John Gray

Second,

He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.

C’est après la mort de Dieu qu’ont surgi les grandes horreurs collectives du communisme et du fascisme (comme Dostoïevski et Nietzsche l’avaient prédit). Pour sa part, Nietzsche avançait qu’après la mort de Dieu, chacun devrait s’inventer ses propres valeurs. Mais c’est l’élément de sa réflexion qui semble le plus discutable, d’un point de vue

Capitalism is a historical form of life in which wage labor is the foundation of social wealth. The deepest stakes of Marx’s critique of capitalism reside in his critique of the measure of value that is entailed by the dependence of society on wage labor.

To read Augustine in the twenty-first century is to gain a vantage point that makes all of our freedom look like addiction.

Purpose, hope and dignity are some of the principles that define a public philosophy of postliberalism.