Lunn’s story illustrates the reality that one need not choose between being a “modern” and “classical” mountain enthusiast or between being an inventor or follower of tradition.

Margaret Sutton on the “something else“ we find in the mountains

Is there anything inherent in mountains that make our relationship to them genuine markers of change in human history?

Jake Grefenstette responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Petrarch is not modern but classical, for he sees himself as being in continuity with a tradition, as gleaning in the fields after the reapers of the past.

Michael Krom responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Knowing a thing truly cannot exhaust the truth of the thing itself, its mystery, the meaning of its being, which consists of and can only be responded to with love.

John-Paul Heil responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Episode 2.1 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast is live!

Petrarch was a founder of an alternative modernity, which emphasizes the compatibility between the ancients and medievals by adhering to the traditional prioritizing of the contemplative over the active.

Michael Krom on spiritual ascents

The future of climbing is not modern. It is post-secular, mystical, communal, and intensely embodied, with technology merely incidental.

Ryan McDermott asks: When did climbing become modern?