Sightings Articles
Faith and Flew
Atheism seems under revision. For the masters of suspicion, religion was nihilistic will-to-power (Nietzsche), class ideology (Marx) or expressions of repression (Freud). Modern science from Bacon through Darwin to the socio-biologists has revoked th...
December 16, 2004
The Intellectual's Responsibility and the Ambiguity of Religions of the Book, part III
In response to the events of the eleventh of September, the University of Chicago has sponsored a series of lectures and discussions titled "9/11: Its Causes and Consequences." The following issue of Sightings is the third in a series of three articl...
October 26, 2001
The Intellectual's Responsibility and the Ambiguity of the Religions of the Book, part II
The Intellectual's Responsibility and the Ambiguity of the Religions of the Book, part II: A Shared Pattern of Moral Conviction In response to the events of the eleventh of September, the University of Chicago has sponsored a series of lectures an...
October 24, 2001
The Intellectual's Responsibility and the Ambiguity of Religions of the Book, part I: The Clash of Civilizations and/or Global Reflexivity
In response to the events of the eleventh of September, the University of Chicago has sponsored a series of lectures and discussions titled "9/11: Its Causes and Consequences." The following issue of Sightings is the first in a series of three adapte...