The Genealogies of Modernity Journal

Decline & Renewal Charles R. Martelle Decline & Renewal Charles R. Martelle

Sacrificing Our Youth

Despite the arrogance of modern thinkers and the mountains of data tech companies collect about us, they still fail to know us deeply.

Charles R. Martelle offer a principal’s view on a modern crisis of attention

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Philosophy & Religion Brian Harding Philosophy & Religion Brian Harding

A Genealogy of Death

The happy skeletons smile, as if to say, “I am alive, I am well, and death is not the end.” For Jorge Portilla, like Socrates before him, a good and meaningful life requires the endorsement of life after death.

Brian Harding on philosophies of death from Greece to Mexico

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Decline & Renewal Jonathan Heaps Decline & Renewal Jonathan Heaps

Humanities beyond the Crisis

This sense of repetition—of just how persistent the titular state of “crisis” in the humanities has been—gives one pause. It is in the space of this pause that their criticisms may land with force.

Jonathan Heaps reviews Permanent Crisis

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