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Genealogies of Modernity is an interdisciplinary humanities journal and podcast supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities in collaboration with the Collegium Institute (University of Pennsylvania) and Beatrice Institute (Pittsburgh).
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War and Revenge, Obsession and Destruction: A Genealogy of the Golem Myth (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,Ressentiment, on Nietzsche’s accounting, is to be numbered among the most poisonous and powerful of human affects. Its insipid energy stems from the illusory self-certainty it affords, a balm for the suffering of existence introjected by delicate transfusion from the bitter sap of hate and envy. The mystically efficacious Golem, impersonalized technology of automatic destruction, is a creature of ressentiment—representing the fantasy of supernatural power divorced from the responsibi
What Modernist Converts Walked Away From: T. S. Eliot and Liberal Protestantism, Part III (opens the original)
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By Jayme StayerThis is the third essay in a three-part series. Read Part I here and Part II here.Eliot’s Rejection of UnitarianismEliot was famously conservative, and this political stance firmly countered the social progressivism of his
What Modernist Converts Walked Away From: T. S. Eliot and Liberal Protestantism, Part II (opens the original)
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By Jayme StayerThis is the second essay in a three-part series. Read Part I here.Unitarian-isms: Capitalism, Theism, Liberalism, and Optimism<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6_T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post
Pathways, August 2026 (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Pathways.On August 31, Wendell Berry—writer and farmer of Kentucky—passed away at 92 years old. Berry relentlessly critiqued industrial and technological modernity, drawing attention to its harmful effects on agriculture, the natural environment, and the bonds that sustain human communities. He never owned a TV or computer. Instead he wrote his poems, essays, and novels by hand, producing works that celebrated the beauty and glory of creation. His life and writings—which do fit n
What Modernist Converts Walked Away From: T. S. Eliot and Liberal Protestantism, Part I (opens the original)
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