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Meaning & Morality in Modernity

Andrew Brower Latz traces two core problems for the modern mind.

In Sam Lipsyte’s satirical novel The Ask, set in contemporary New York, the protagonist says, “We were stuck between meanings. Or we were the last dribbles of something. It was hard to figure. The fall of the Soviet Union, this was… The beginning of aggressively marketed nachos.”

Disquiet about the experience of modern life was already being expressed in the mid-nineteenth century by novelists such as Flaubert, philosophers such as Kierkegaard, and sociologists such as Weber.

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