Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...
The hideous legacy of modernity can be seen in the ghastliness of the guillotine, the gulag and the gas chamber. The stormtroopers of modernity have trampled much underfoot on their monstrous march ...
One of the best-known texts of Vatican II is Gaudium et Spes, the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world. That unique document, addressed not just to ...
Man is a sovereign, self-governing and autonomous rational being. We, as humans, prefer to call ourselves conservative or are labeled as traditional by our society. We are afraid to accept a change or ...
Muqtedar Khan teaches at the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder of the Delaware Council for Global and Muslim Affairs and is on Twitter. Updated December 6, 2015, 11:09 PM How can we wrap our ...
The history of modernity reads approximately like this. Around the time of Buddha, 500 years before Christ, the world was an ignorant place. It had little science. Reason was subordinate to power. And ...
The events of the 11 September have stirred up a sometimes acrimonious debate about Islam and modernity. Some commentators in the West say the two are not compatible. Others, including many Muslims, ...
Iconic French literary theorist Gerald Genette defines the epigraph as “roughly as a quotation placed en exergue, generally at the head of a work or a section of a work; literally, en exergue means ...
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