In response to the essay by members of the KU Leuven project “Dissenting Church,” I argue that they overlook the metaphysics underlying much of the church’s twentieth-century thought on tradition, leading to unnecessary dichotomies, such as whether tradition changes or is unchanging.
In our response to Fischer’s concerns, we clarify the metaphysical intuitions underlying the original article. We further contend that both classical metaphysics and framing of tradition in Fischer’s response may bring more problems than they solve as they reinforce the purity discourses criticized in the original piec...
I lay out in summary form my main positions and arguments in favor of libertarianism, as presented in Four Views on Free Will (Second Edition).
This essay situates Timothy Hogue’s The Ten Commandments: Monuments of Memory, Belief, and Interpretation and Mark Lester’s Deuteronomy and the Material Transmission of Tradition in the intellectual practices of historical-critical biblical scholarship, suggesting that biblical studies’ next “turn,” already und...
A review of Rita Abrahamsen and co-authors' The World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and the Global Order - a study of the intellectual foundations of the contemporary global far right.
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
Abstract:The writer explains the concept of "insurgent utopianism" with the intent to contribute to collective protest movements. Topics include the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, police abolition, an online publishing platform called Project 2052, utopianism and Marxist critique, critique of social justice as planning,...
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