Kierkegaard is the thinker that overcomes the systemic optimism of Hegel with meaning and morality actualized by personal commitment to truth, goodness, and beauty.

Chris L. Firestone responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

If the logos of self-giving love shapes all reality, the critical or creative struggle cannot possibly keep the central or even the last word.

Eduard Fiedler responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Viewed in this way, surely one of the paradigmatic examples of “modernity talk” is the distinction between BC and AD—particularly if we pair it with the notion of a New Testament and an Old Testament.

Thomas A. Lewis responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

How is mathematics a liberal art? How can being good at math translate into virtue?

An interview with Francis Su

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in November on our modern life.

Episode 2.3 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast is live!

Disenchantment talk… has the benefit of raising an alternative way of viewing reality to what has become deeply ingrained and habitual in us all.

Travis DeCook responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Humility is key to understanding modernity.

Rokhaya Dieng responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

The best way to show students how the term “modernity” is wielded in this way is to highlight the variety of lifestyles that exist parallel to each other in the same era…

Gina Elia responds to the Genealogies of Modernity podcast

Episode 2.2 of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast is live!

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!

What does it mean to be modern? And what is modernity anyway? Find out on the Genealogies of Modernity podcast.

How successful are the liberal arts in teaching students how to be happy?

An interview with Tal Ben-Shahar

Barfield’s diagnosis of a deeper alienation from language induces a correspondingly more dramatic remedy.

Jeffrey Hipolito puts two great theorists of human history into conversation

What does Silicon Valley have to do with Jerusalem?

An interview with Derek Shuurman

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in October on our modern life.

The genealogical description insists on erasing hundreds of years of Christian life. The writer awkwardly alludes to Christianity but cannot imagine that it has any real importance except as a machine for appropriating pagan practices.

Terence Sweeney critiques pop-genealogies of Halloween