Secularisations and Their Debates
Perspectives on the Return of Religion in the Contemporary West
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Not Beyond Politics: The Metapolitical Dimensions of Nietzsche’s Anti-Democratism in Beyond Good and Evil
Our ability today to read Friedrich Nietzsche’s extraordinary body of work is affected by the remarkable weight of commentary that it has already produced, and the passionate untimely identifications the Germa...
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Pierre Hadot, Albert Camus and the orphic view of nature
Albert Camus repeatedly denied the label “existentialist,” and pointed to his formative experiences of natural beauty and his early introduction to classical Greek thought and culture as determinative of his p...
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Killing the father, Parmenides: On Lacan’s anti-philosophy
This paper examines the historical claims about philosophy, dating back to Parmenides, that we argue underlie Jacques Lacan’s polemical provocations in the mid-1970s that his position was an “anti-philosophie”. F...
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Introduction: Secularization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud’s 1927 work The Future of Illusion expresses the great psychoanalyst’s most whiggish assessment of the situation of Western, post-enlightenment societies. In it, Freud reanimates the ancient traditi...
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‘In the Beginning Was … the Story’? On Secularization, Narrative, and Nominalisms
In Charles Taylor, the radical orthodoxy theologians, and Michael Gillespie, the genre of the large-scale renarration of Western modernity has been recently reanimated as a means to challenge the modern secular a...
