Between Utopia and Disaster
The modern state is founded on a dream—the dream of perfect knowledge that secures perfect power.
The Kierkegaardian Leap of Climate Activism
by
Rhoda Feng
Posted on November 8, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Students protest during climate change strike. Melbourne, Australia, March 13, 2020. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Throughout the book, Sherrell eschews the phrase “climate crisis,” substituting a much more nebulous term: “the Problem.”
The Wisdom Hypothesis
Posted on November 4, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Gaziantep "Gaia" Mosaic. Zeugma Museum. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Even defenders of the idea today such as Bruno Latour admit that Gaia in the original Greek context is “a figure of violence."
The Silencing of the Lambs
Posted on October 26, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: The Sheep and the Hunted Wolf by William Samuel Howitt [1811]. Via Wikimedia Commons.
We are here to ponder the longue durée of mutton in an age of capitalist wolves.
Why Carl Schmitt Matters to China
Posted on October 21, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: Carl Schmitt in 1930; Ullstein Bild.
It would be prudent to take the Chinese at their word––especially if it is bound up in the mystifying language of Carl Schmitt.
A Vision on a Summer Night
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on October 19, 2021
in THR Web Features
Image: The Downs Malvern, Colwall, Herefordshire, United Kingdom.
Perhaps the older Auden merely wants to have the humility to accept the terms on which agape offers itself.
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