Luke Bretherton
@WestLondonMan
Robert E. Cushman Professor of Moral & Political Theology @DukeU @DukeDivinity @StMellitus & Host of the Listen, Organize, Act! Podcast
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http://duke.academia.edu/LukeBretherton 20-10-2009 12:50:28
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Insightful take on & overview of postliberalism as a political movement with many parts (factions?) from Prof PJ Kelly LSE šŗš¦ -although I donāt think what he calls ācommon good absolutismā fits within postliberalism blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolā¦
I find all talk of āChristian nationalismā muddled & saying little more that āI donāt like.ā Iāll write something on why the term is counterproductive & itself antidemocratic but in the meantime this excellent piece by Brad East is a v good critique christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/march-ā¦
Iām beginning work on a georgic political theology-from Virgilās The Georgics a genre focused both on tilling the soil & the ordinary ways we make a life, incl. family & motherhood. This wonderful review of two books by Emily Raboteau speaks its concerns nybooks.com/articles/2024/ā¦
Terrific critique in the guise of a book review of the cult of authenticity & what the author Tyler Austin Harper calls ātherapeutic libertarianismā with its hidden class assumptions. Also, always good to see Laschās The Culture of Narcissism discussed theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ā¦
Good review and overview of Jon Cruddas important new book āA Century of Labourā which argues for the recovery of the associational, ethical and small ādā democratic aspects of Labourās political tradition jacobin.com/2024/01/labourā¦ @Jacobin Blue Labour
āReal hope does not evade the tragic, overlook suffering, or repress injustice by fixating on a future object or time. It faces head on the world as it is but refuses to be governed by it. To put this another way, hope refuses the tyranny of the present.ā
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Read this over the holidays. Excellent (esp the chapter on toleration and hospitality) Luke Bretherton