Scholarship Out of Time: Weimar’s Lost Existence
Samuel J. Loncar on Anachronism in Philosophy, Religion, and Heidegger’s Existence and Time (Sein und Zeit) The Forum provides a home for original
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Demons and Western Psychology: The Unbounded Potential of The Monastic Mind
Daniel Eastman on Inbar Graiver How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists? This question lies at
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in
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The Cry of Merlin: Carl Jung and the Insanity of Reason
Gregory Shaw on Peter Kingsley I. For a long time, I hesitated to review Catafalque because I knew I could not respond in
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Reader in a Lost World
Fantasies, like dreams, can surprise you. My fantasy is always the same. The sun streams over my shoulder—that crisp, new light of early
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A Formal Fracture: Poets and Theologians
Tom Millay reviews Anthony Domestico’s Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period In the interwar years of 1922-1939, T.S. Eliot published a modernist
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Grandpa Milbank
A review of John Milbank and Adrian Pabst’s The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future. The afternoon that I began reading
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Houellebecq’s Wager – By Bruno Chaouat
Bruno Chaouat on Michel Houellebecq’s Soumission Recently, French intellectuals have become interested in the unbearable lightness of being oneself, in the paradoxical burden of individual
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Move Over, Mendelssohn – By Daniel B. Schwartz
Daniel B. Schwartz on Eliyahu Stern’s The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and
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