Out Went Horror Vacui: On No Longer Being Afraid of the Nothingness of the Void
That the ascetic ideal has meant so many things to man, however, is an expression of the basic fact of the human will, its horror vacui; it…
That the ascetic ideal has meant so many things to man, however, is an expression of the basic fact of the human will, its horror vacui; it…
The most vast and ambitious commercial enterprises of all times are the contemporary media conglomerates, an existing but not tangible corpse of powers. Predators of faces, dates,…
What is the state of a controlled mind? It is certainly a diseased one, as the mind cannot stand another authority over its own; its faculty is…
The choice is as judicious as it is provocative in a time when all of us are threatened in our humanity, if not in our physical existence,…
The unknown factor is a variable in a conditional equation in mathematics; it is the quantity which is to be discovered by solving an equation (This is…
Operations with Algorithms are at the heart of disease prevention technologies. This is a follow-up article of those published in the 20 September, 13 October, and 6…
Can we arrive through reason at knowing what is the reason of state? For if unreason should come into conflict with reason, we shall then reason and…
This is a follow-up article to the one published in VoegelinView on 20 September 2021. The question concerned whether a sudden emergency situation can lead to or…
When we pose the question whether a sudden emergency situation can lead to or bring about permanent changes in politics, the seemingly evident answer would be ‘yes’.…
Liminality and the Modern. Bjørn Thomassen. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. This new book by the Danish scholar Bjørn Thomassen is organized around the term liminality, an anthropologically based…