Adam Kotsko
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"Mi mayor frustración es no ser un sociópata. Creo que no soy el único. Son las figuras dominantes de la televisión y casi no hay género televisivo que esté a salvo de su presencia. Las series de animación han sentido la fascinación por los padres sociópatas (con grados distintos de cordura) desde el mismo día en que los creadores de Los Simpson se percataron de que Homer era un protagonista más interesante que Bart.
En una demostración...
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The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle: the offloading of responsibility for evil onto one of God's rebellious creatures. In this striking reexamination, the devil's story is bitterly ironic,...
4) Creepiness
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A specter is haunting contemporary television-the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet, when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries to account for the strange fascination of creepiness....
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By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda. Neoliberalism's Demons argues that it is much more than that: a complete worldview, neoliberalism presents the competitive marketplace as the model for true human flourishing. And it has enjoyed great success: from the struggle for "global competitiveness" on the world stage down to our individual practices of self-branding and social networking,...
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Sociopaths are pervasive in contemporary television, from highbrow drama all the way down to cartoons, and of course the news as well. From the scheming Eric Cartman of South Parkto the seductive imposter Don Draper of Mad Men, cold and ruthless characters captivate us, making us wish that we could be, so effective and successful. Yet, why should we admire characters, who get ahead by being amoral and uncaring? In his follow-up to Awkwardness, Adam...
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The secular world may have thought it was done with theology, but theology was not done with it. Recent decades have seen a resurgence of religion on the social and political scene, which have driven thinkers across many disciplines to grapple with the Christian theological inheritance of the modern world.
Adam Kotsko provides a unique guide to this fraught terrain. The title essay establishes a fresh and unexpected redefinition of theology and...