The Irrepressible Human Voice of Stanley Cavell, 1926-2018
Jonathan Tran on Stanley Cavell As a Harvard graduate student Stanley Cavell was, in his words, “on the road toward a proper dissertation” when
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Philosophy
Saint of Science: The Religious Life of Isaac Newton
Peter Harrison reviews Rob Iliffe’s Priest of Nature The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton. When Isaac Newton died on March 31, 1727, his
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The Atomist Age: Lucretius and the Poetry of Science
David Currell reviews recent books on a timely classic. Imagine this review beginning with
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The Wisdom of Death
Samuel Loncar considers how death can save our lives All life ends. The heat of breath chills to ragged wheezing. Finally movement and
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Beyond Borders: America, Immigration, and the Future of Information
Editor Samuel Loncar’s Vision for Freedom and Depth in the Digital Age What defines us is not our leaders or our borders. A
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The Genealogy of Ethical Life – by Jon Bialecki
Jon Bialecki on Webb Keane’s Ethical Life I kept on thinking of Nietzsche. I need not have, of course; neither the book, nor
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The Interpretative Pivot: Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Decline of Islamic Pluralism – by Peter Gottschalk
The sixth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration,
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Reconceptualization, Pre-Text, and Con-text – by Sajjad Rizvi
The fifth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? We use categories and concepts in order to communicate something to
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Apocalypse is the Mother of Beauty – By Ed Simon
Consider, Boethius. He was a descendent of a noble Italian family, a beneficiary of a classical education, and in some ways the last
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MRBlog | DISPATCHES. NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion (pt. 3) by Sarah E. Rollens
By Sarah E. Rollens On July 17, the NEH Summer Institute on Problems in the Study of Religion at UVa wrapped up. I
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