The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology
The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology. Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai. London: Routledge, 2020. This book is explicitly presented in its preface as a…
The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology. Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai. London: Routledge, 2020. This book is explicitly presented in its preface as a…
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For the 2020 Eric Voegelin Society Meeting, please be sure to register at the American Political Science Association website. Also please remember whether you are becoming a…
“One moment even of feeble contrition or blurred thankfulness will, at least in some degree, head us off from the abyss of abstraction. It is Reason herself…
Self-Sealing Fallacy Some modern militant atheists like to claim things like “religion ruins everything.” Or that the planet would be so much better off without a belief…
Many of us live in isolation from one another. We commute alone in our own cars, we entertain ourselves with television and computer screens, and shop for…
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