by Kevin Currie-Knight ___ Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) chats with Wendy Syfret (VICE Asia) about her new book The Sunny Nihilist: How a Meaningless
Tag: Modernity
Heidegger’s Illusions
by E. John Winner 1. In 1934, shortly after the infamous murder spree of the Blood Purge, Hitler delivered a speech before the Reichstag. Referring
The English Revolution and the Genesis of Modernity
by E. John Winner ____ This is first of two essays, concerning the events of the English Revolution of the 17th century. Why should these
Inventing Religion
by Mark English Nouns and adjectives like ‘religion’ and ‘religious’ can be seen as more or less useful classificatory terms. More – or less –
Course Notes – Immanuel Kant, “What is Enlightenment?”
by Daniel A. Kaufman https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/What_is_Enlightenment.pdf Another semester at Missouri State and another edition of Course Notes. Up for consideration this time is Immanuel Kant’s “An
The Ripeness is All: Hamlet and the Problem of Uncertainty
E. John Winner Although the Italian Renaissance produced important works prefatory to the arrival of Modernity, three texts actually announce it. Surprisingly, given modern biases,