Afterwords

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This book about nostalgia raises the question of why it has become such a dominant and influential posture in contemporary philosophical and theological writing. The author notes the presence of the word "after" in a great many contemporary academic titles, and notes a spiritual sort of alienation that many feel in the "modern age." Out of this scholarly discontent emerges one of two related attempts: the attempt to return to a premodern manner of thinking and being (nostalgia); and the playful flight into some vaguely defined "postmodernity" (utopia). In either case, the common perception is that modernity is a problem, a problem to be avoided or escaped. . Bringing philosophical and theological texts into conversation with one another, the book discovers a startling similarity in the accounts of modernness offered in these disparate idioms. Both are telling a story - a story which, the author argues, is as seductive as it is misguided.

subjects: Christianity,  Civilization, Modern,  Degeneration,  Hellenism,  Modern Civilization,  Modern Philosophy,  Nostalgia,  Philosophy, Modern,  Modern,  Philosophy & Religion,  Philosophy,  General,  HISTORY,  Moderne,  Nostalgie,  Hellenismus,  Dekadenz,  Epigone,  Kultur,  Philosophy, modern, 20th century,  Christianity, 20th century,  Civilization, modern, 20th century,  Dégénérescence,  Hellénisme,  Philosophie,  Civilisation,  Christianisme

Times: 20th century