The Soundminded Schizophrenic: Living in the Just-Nowness

By |2023-05-21T11:32:05-05:00May 8th, 2013|Categories: E.B., Eva Brann, Modernity, Senior Contributors, St. John's College|Tags: |

Mr. Ropoulos and I were talking in the St. John’s College Coffee Shop, and the subject of modernity came up. So he asked me to write a few pages for his issue of the Gadfly (ed., the St. John’s student paper). “Modernity” comes from Latin modo, “just-now.” Thus modernity is any generation’s own time; it [...]

Romano Guardini and the Dissolution of Western Culture

By |2023-03-07T08:55:43-06:00May 8th, 2013|Categories: Communio, Culture, Featured, Romano Guardini, Western Civilization|Tags: , |

The End of the Modern World, by Romano Guardini; with an Introduction by Frederick Wilhelmsen. The appearance of this new and expanded edition of Romano Guardini’s book is both timely and helpful. Guardini (1885-1968) writes partially in the spirit of a theologian and partly with the critical eye of the philosopher. And he rightly sees [...]

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