Here’s a couple of paragraphs from the end of Solomon Amongst the Postmoderns:“Modernity has for many moderns been a singularly joyless place. Weber’s portrait of modernity as a stiflingly rationalized and technological “iron cage” is one-sided, but it expresses a common experience of modernity. And no wonder: if the burden of reducing the world to …

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After a short pause, I’ve read the end of this very interesting book by Peter Leithart. In it, he looks at post/modernity and post/modernism from many different angles, not dwelling unnecessarily on the epistemological shift. Whilst I found that some of his descriptions and explanations of things were repetitive and lengthy (noting that the book …

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