The Return of the Unfashionable Gods – The Daily Sceptic

The Return Of The Unfashionable Gods

This post, authored by Michael Rainsborough, is republished with permission from The Daily Sceptic The American philosopher Richard Rorty argued that literature, not academic treatises, affords a truer insight into an understanding of the human condition. While professors are busy strangling everything with jargon and footnotes, novels and poems are out there doing the real work: showing us what it actually feels like to be alive. In Contingency…

The Return of the Unfashionable Gods – The Daily Sceptic

"Dear elites, the consequences of your actions have arrived." So says Prof David Betz as Britain’s social order fractures beneath the weight of its contradictions. It was all foreseen by Kipling, says Michael Rainsborough.