Irony and the Meaning of Human Existence: The Problems of Postmodernism
The Postmodern Irony of David Foster Wallace When you meet a new acquaintance at a social gathering, your first instinct is to seek common ground. The more…
The Postmodern Irony of David Foster Wallace When you meet a new acquaintance at a social gathering, your first instinct is to seek common ground. The more…
William Shakespeare’s The Life of Henry V addresses perirenal questions concerning the human condition and the justifications for war.[1] Shakespeare’s play illustrates how the causes of war…
Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung is a masterpiece of modern art and is perhaps the greatest triumph of the artistic spirit since 1800. J.R.R. Tolkien’s…
Andrew Klavan. The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus.…
Felix Salten, The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest. Translated & Introduced by Jack Zipes, Illustrated by Alenka Sottler. Princeton: Princeton University Press,…
Joshua Hren. Contemplative Realism: A Theological-Aesthetical Manifesto. San Francisco: Benedict XVI Institute, 2022. Benjamin Myers. A Poetics of Orthodoxy: Christian Truth as Aesthetic Foundation. Eugene: OR, Cascade…
Perhaps an apology might be necessary for the sheer audacity of beginning any essay with such a question and with such a seemingly absurd claim. Of course,…
A few years ago, students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a large Shakespeare portrait from a staircase that students and faculty members in the English department walk…
“Without being compatriots, they were all Romans. When everyone became a Roman citizen, Rome ceased having any citizens; and when being a Roman citizen became equivalent to…
Act 2 of the Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar[1] opens with a reference to Act. 1.2.140. According to Brutus, Cassius is wrong about blaming men for fateful events (2.1.2-4).[2]…
“[I]f Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.” As a dramatic account of the origins and limits of political authority, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar…
William Shakespeare, that great bard of Stratford-upon-Avon, was not a political theorist. But he had much to say about politics. Or, at least, his plays are often…
Lee Oser. Christian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature. Washington DC: Catholic University Press, 2022. “Shakespeare may or may not have been a Christian…
In a 2021 essay for Shakespeare Survey 74, “Counterpublic Shakespeares in the American Education Marketplace,” Notre Dame’s Jillian Snyder raises questions about the state of Shakespeare studies,…
VoegelinView editor Paul Krause joined Erich Prince, the editor of Merion West, on his podcast Open With Erich Prince to discuss VoegelinView, Eric Voegelin, the artistic and…