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Durkheim’s Intellectual Antecedents
It is remarkable that all the developmental-evolutionary theorists of religion that I have considered thus far (Hume, Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Lubbock, Tylor, Darwin, Frazer, Marett, and...
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Marx’s Metaphysical Progressivism
Over at the NYRB, John Gray ably reviews Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life (2013). Gray lauds Sperber for shedding light on the apparent conflict between Marx’s commitment to...
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Polarities of Progress
While researching my next post in the series on the idea of “progress,” I came across two articles sitting at opposite poles of the progressive spectrum. In the first, the arch-skeptic of progress John...
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