Tag: bible
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After Apollo, Before Babel: Progress at the Edge of Imitation and Apocalypse
The conversation unfolds as an extended attempt to diagnose what both speakers treat as a historically specific change in the character, tempo, and moral psychology of “progress,” especially in the West. Jordan Peterson frames Peter Thiel as an unusually philosophically oriented investor and entrepreneur, and presents the discussion less as a business interview than as…
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G. K. Chesterton’ Orthodoxy
Chesterton’ Orthodoxy presents itself as an intellectual experiment whose distinctive contribution lies in demonstrating, by autobiographical method and argumentative pressure, that classical Christian doctrine functions as a methodological key for holding together experiences that otherwise disintegrate into skepticism, sentimentality, or fanaticism. Its scholarly stake is to exhibit how a determinate creed—summarized by the Apostles’ Creed—does…
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The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany 1750-1800
Robert S. Leventhal’s The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany, 1750–1800 is a genealogy of interpretive reason at the precise historical moment when “reading” ceases to be a private virtuosity and becomes a structured practice, an institutional technology, and a self-questioning mode of historical knowledge. Published by Walter de Gruyter in…
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Johann Gottfried Herder on World History: An Anthology
Johann Gottfried Herder on World History: An Anthology presents Herder’s lifelong wager that history becomes intelligible only when narrated as the becoming of humanity—not a thin abstraction but a living principle that binds language, climate, custom, belief, and art into a single, ever-unfinished text. The editors, Hans Adler and Ernest A. Menze, organize thirty-eight selections…
Simon Gros 