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Continuing the line of inquiry intitated by Eric Gans’ Chronicle, “The Four Freedoms,” we can suggest that the three main linguistic forms correspond to three modes of political accountability.  The ostensive, to unquestioned fealty to a shared sacred center; the imperative to the rule of “big man” who runs society as what we might call, [...]

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Here’s an extremely informative essay from the excellent Stanley Kurtz:

 http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/ID.1498/article_detail.asp

Adam Katz

The notion, put forward in Eric Gans’ latest Chronicle (349 http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw349.htm), that global warmism (as the latest and most succesful incarnation of the religion of impending disaster) is a viable global religion that might serve to defer conflict in a post-Auschwitz world is worth pursuing further.  First of all, the religion of impending disaster is [...]

Continue reading Originary Modern Individuality and Global Religion: Some comments on the Religion of Impending Disaster