“The neoliberal version of the promise of rising living standards is based on the fallacy of economic deregulation and financialization. Let us be rich, the elites say, and you will share in the spoils. All you have to do is work hard, obey the rules, and believe in…+

“The transmutation of metals is only the outward sign of an inward transmutation; to make gold is to make the sun rise within oneself.” Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

My latest paper is out. It consists of two parts: the first covers early Islam and deals with the views of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq on God. The second attends to medieval debates on God between Shiʿi and Ashʿari thinkers. academia.edu/144640029/SHI%…

“While in Damascus at his room at the Barrâniye Madrase, Sepahsalâr claims that Rumi was observed on several occasions in the company of Khezr, Moses' mystical guide in the Koran and beloved figure of Sufism.” — Franklin D. Lewis, Rumi - Past and Present, East and West: The

Frederic Jameson said that the fascination of modernism with "deep time", as in Bergson or Proust, derived from the unevenness of the modern world, the coexistence of slower, rural time with the fast pace of the metropoles and industrialization.

“Modern people do not live in the present. They live the pastness of the present—confronting each moment as it will be from the vantage-point of future time. Modern people live as though they stepped into the present from the future.” — Sir Roger Scruton, 1996

“The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.” Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

“True progress consists in submitting the human element which corrupts liberty, to the divine element which purifies it. Society has followed a different path in looking upon the empire of faith as dead; and in proclaiming the empire of reason and the will of man, it has made

Reading Lacan and the big Other pins me against the wall

reading adam smith and getting fingerblasted by the invisible hand

men are not lonely enough

Engaging essay by Samantha Rose Hill from 2019, describing the complex interactions between Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Adorno, and others, en route to the preservation of Benjamin's works during and post WW II. share.google/2IyLHfRTpVWFxw…

“Civilization is not saved by the multiplication of material goods but by the growth of the human soul.” — Jacques Maritain

I have an essay on self-help, the "philosophy" industry, and human finitude in our new issue. As Dylan said of "Tangled Up In Blue," it took me ten years to live and two to write. I hope you enjoy. thedriftmag.com/how-i-learned-…

This is what human flourishing looks like

wapol 🐬 Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن Modernity itself is totally split down the middle by the Descartes/Hobbes debate, which I think clearly echoes the debate between Catholics and Protestants, respectively, on the potentia obedientialis, sanctifying grace, Mariology, etc. Gillespie details this really well in the

'[H]istory appears to [Plato]…as a story of technical progress combined with moral regress'

"Modern society is no longer anything but a negative imitation and the effort to leave the beaten paths forces everyone inevitably into the same ditch." René Girard, "Deceit, Desire and the Novel", 100

"Whoever holds that good can be recognized without evil commits the greatest of all errors, for in philosophy, as in Dante's poem, the path toward heaven leads through the abyss." - Friedrich W.J. Schelling, The Ages of the World

“As the eye must be clear to see, so the soul must be pure to apprehend the beautiful and the good.” Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures, Moralia