1. Identity

Flesh, Bone, Blood

by Peter J. Leithart

For the Old Testament, communal identity is found in flesh and bone, not flesh and blood. Continue Reading »

21 May 2014

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Transcendental Subject

by Leslie E. Gerber

At the time of the publication of Michael Sandel’s Liberalism and the Limits of Justice in 1982, Oliver Sacks was writing many of the “clinical tales” for his remarkable The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. This chronological parallelism notwithstanding, nothing would seem more improbable . . . . Continue Reading »

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