Charles Taylor on the modern problem of Meaninglessness
‘The problem of the meaning of life is therefore on our agenda, however much we may jibe at this phrase, …
Tag Archives: Modernity
Hanna Mikhail on the use of Islamic Symbolism in the Age of Modernity
Present-day Muslims, in attempting to modernize their societies, depend greatly on the ideologies of the dominant West, but find it …
MacIntyre on being the heirs of Kuhn and not Kant
‘What was at issue here is perhaps easier for us to recognise now than it was for Gifford and his …
Michael Billig on the invention of ‘Language’
‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …
Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the ideal of Faith
‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …
William Cavanaugh on Rational and Irrational Violence
‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …
Nietzsche on the Death of God
Para. 125; The Gay Science (1882, 1887), Friedrich Nietzsche, [Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]
Malcolm Gladwell On the ‘Healthiness’ of Traditional Cultures
‘What Wolf began to realize was that the secret of Roseto wasn’t diet or exercise or genes or location. It …
Gai Eaton on the ‘Secrets’ behind Traditional Artisanship
“In his book on the Moroccan city of Fez, ‘Fez: City of Islam’, Titus Burckhardt describes a meeting with an …
On the Priority of Faith
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, p. 36, 1993.
