PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 82
Stephen Gardner, on Philip Rieff and Freud, and on how modern culture weakens religion and establishes a new definition of the public
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, on Tom Wolfe and Philip Rieff’s diagnosis of cultural disorder
Wilfred McClay, on how Philip Rieff’s brilliant critique of modern disorder kept him from realizing a way out of our dilemma
David Wells, author of Above All Earthly Pow’rs: Christ in a Postmodern World. on how Western culture has eclipsed fundamental assumptions about human nature and God
James K. A. Smith, author of Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, on the postmodern insight that our experience in the world requires interpretation (and that some interpretations are better than others)
Robert Littlejohn, co-author of Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning, on how education should encourage wisdom and eloquence in students, and why these are Christian virtues.
Bonus: James K. A. Smith, author of author of Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, on the relationship between ideas and cultural change
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