Review of Walker Percy’s Symbol and Existence
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Reclaiming Liberalism
In press — due December Preface — David F. Hardwick and Leslie Marsh 1. Reclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism – David Ellerman 2. Democracy, Liberalism, and Discretion: The Political Puzzle of the Administrative State – Stephen Turner 3. Ordoliberalism as the Operationalisation of Liberal Politics – Mikayla Novak 4. Liberalism, Through a Glass Darkly – David…
Smith, Justice, and the Scope of the Political
There was a time when many commentators thought that there was a problem with Adam Smith. The tendency to read Smith’s thought as marred by supposed tensions between the ‘sympathy’ of The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) and the ‘selfishness’ of The Wealth of Nations (WN) has long since been debunked. Smith scholars are coming…
Value Realism and Moral Psychology: A Comparative Analysis of Iris Murdoch and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nathan Carson’s recently published article in Philosophy and Literature. Nathan also wrote a chapter entitled “On Being Jaded: Walker Percy’s Philosophical Contributions” for this collection. DostoyevskyIris Murdochmoral philosophyMoral psychologyNathan Carsonphilosophical literature
Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends
Here’s an interview with Ben Alexander about his recently published edited book. Ben also contributed to my Zygon symposium from a few years back. benjamin alexanderFlannery O’ConnorWalker Percy
Robert Musil
Born on this date (6 November). Here is Roger Kimball’s well-known take. Here too is The Monist issue dedicated to “The Philosophy of Robert Musil” and Mette Blok’s article “Robert Musil’s Literary Ethics: The Man without Qualities Reconsidered“. Musil’s debut The Confusions of Young Törless is freely available here as is Vol. I of his masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Last,…
Cosmos + Taxis 7: 3+4
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British Labour and the Socialism of Fools: The Return of Left-Wing Antisemitism
Peter C. Grosvenor’s review essay in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Volume 25, 2019 – Issue 2: 240-245 (Corrected for spelling). Sadly there are many dhimmi–“Funktionshäftling”-like Jews that comprise the Regressive Left, their silence on this issue highlighting their mauvaise foi. That Labour has an antisemitism problem is beyond dispute There is nothing new about left-wing antisemitism,…
Booker T. Jones’ Memoir
Time Is Tight: My Life, Note by Note has just been published. Here’s a review. Booker T JonesBooker T. and the MGskeyboardsmemphismusicsouthern soulStax
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