Recently added articles from Modern Age:
Conservatism in Winter.
Jan 01, 2009; ... When the previous issue of Modern Age was being readied for the press, the elections of 2008 were yet to be decided. As I write this, we approach the presidential inauguration of a man who is arguably the most radical leftist ever to have held the office. The Winter 2009 issue of the ...
Mass, class, and audience: beyond the Glenn Gould problem.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The critical point of crossover between sociological and musicological forms of analysis is audience. Earlier varieties of analysis that dwelt on composers, performers, and compositions have given way to changes in the mode and size of audience participation. Music as an object for ...
Karen Blixen and the Apocalypse of Man: a Voegelinian meditation.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... "The Age of Reason has received its name, not because it was particularly reasonable, but because the thinkers of the eighteenth century believed to have found in Reason, capitalized, the substitute for divine order." --Eric Voegelin, "Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in ...
The divine law and the modern project.(A SYMPOSIUM ON REMI BRAGUE'S THE LAW OF GOD)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In his most recently translated book, Remi Brague displays his usual captivating breadth of erudition--from Egyptian papyrology and Icelandic ecclesiastical history, to the thought of Leo Strauss and Hans Urs von Balthasar, to The Code of the Woosters and Tintin in America. His scholarly ...
Reason, revelation, and American theocracy rightly understood.(A SYMPOSIUM ON REMI BRAGUE'S THE LAW OF GOD)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Tocqueville famously diagnosed American consciousness as deeply affected by an untutored Cartesianism; in his view, our intellectual debt to Descartes was undiminished by our ignorance of his bequest. Likewise, many have surprisingly judged the contemporary American political scene as ...