The Sexual Sublime and Salvation on Pandora: The Romantic Imagination of James Cameron
“I see you.” That simple phrase by Jake Sully to Neytiri consummates their relationship long before their having sex from which Jake “becomes a man” in passing…
“I see you.” That simple phrase by Jake Sully to Neytiri consummates their relationship long before their having sex from which Jake “becomes a man” in passing…
Joseph T. Stuart. Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason. Sophia Institute Press, 2020. Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason examines…
László F. Földényi. Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears. Trans. Ottilie Mulzet. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. “Almighty God, though who holds…
There are two diametrically opposed ways of viewing the social and political tensions in the West today that are typically classified as progressive and conservative (or alt.right).…
Recently, some European politicians and journalists have been making well-intentioned appeals to the "spirit of the Enlightenment" or the "values of the Enlightenment". In the face of…
Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment. Thomas W. Merrill. Cambridge University Press, 1915. Thomas Merrill of American University introduces this book with reflections on the difficult relation…
A Forerunner: Helvétius The historian of ideas has to do more than report the doctrine advanced by a thinker or give an account of a few great…
How Lucky we are to be Free of Obscurantism! The term "Enlightenment" is an ideological term with no utility in studying the structures of reality. But it…