Sublime

We must join the resistance by making solidarity with those who struggle for life in the face of death.

Radical Hermeneutics was also something of a manifesto for a philosophy that mattered. The introduction was titled “Restoring Life to Its Original Difficulty”; the final chapter, “Openness to Mystery.” This was a postmodernism with philosophical chops and a religious heartbeat.

Of course, the old world is far from being completely dead. Religion, family, marriage, motherhood, modesty, even virginity itself, are still on a solid footing in many places around the world. But what the philosopher cares about is less what is than what is to come.

late modernism has attempted to formally sever the connection with Christianity while, often unknowingly, living off of Christianity’s moral heritage.

Should we switch things up? Try another tack? Measurable nonresults is one of the reasons so many churches tuck the gospel behind fog and lasers or adjust their teaching to the “7 Steps” busywork of moralistic therapeutic deism.

In the Western tradition, the Machiavellian-Hobbesian account departs fundamentally from the Aristotelian-Thomist conception of politics as an art of persuasion and good government, which rests on an idea of right reason in search of ethical ends such as the good life.

The neoliberal reforms we have witnessed over the past decades are no doubt pernicious. The downfall of the welfare state, however, is due not only to neoliberal ideology but also to the general reliance on the generation of capital wealth, which makes the welfare state hostage to economic crises.