After Faith
According to the secularization thesis, religious faith should have long ago disappeared, overwhelmed by the forces of progress. Yet while explicit membership in denominational communities is certainly less an obligatory feature of contemporary culture than it was a generation or two ago, modes of religion still play important roles in aspects of social life. This issue of Telos explores some of the ramifications of this afterlife of faith.
Introduction
Russell A. Berman
Living in an Age of Comfort: Understanding Religion in the Twenty-first Century
Greg Melleuish
From the Apocalypse to the Revolution
Luciano Pellicani
The Force of Critique: Walter Benjamin’s Concept of the Mimetic Redemption of Nature-History
Joseph Weiss
Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Public Sphere
Robert Wyllie
A Theory of Atheology: Reason, Critique, and Beyond
Charles Devellennes
Wicked Men, Evil World: Evil Between Psychoanalysis and Historical Materialism
Giuseppe Tassone
Hegel and Marx on the Spurious Infinity of Modern Civil Society
Matthew J. Smetona
Liberalism and the Question: Strauss and Derrida on Politics and Philosophy
Jade Larissa Schiff
Notes and Commentary
“Human Rights”: Conceptual Confusion and Political Exploitation
Panajotis Kondylis
The Return of the Distributist Critique: From Belloc to Berry
Steven Knepper
Immigration and the Therapeutic Managerial Government
Nicholas W. Drummond
Reviews
Love’s Empire
Mark S. Weiner
