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Genealogies of Modernity

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by Ryan McDermott

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Season 2 of Genealogies of Modernity is a limited series from the Genealogies of Modernity Project and Ministry of Ideas. Each episode takes up a well-worn story about what it means to be modern and how we got here, and then challenges that narrative with recent humanities scholarship. Genealogies of Modernity illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future. Genealogies of Modernity is a project of Beatrice Institute and Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For responses to the series, teaching aids, as well as artwork and videos, visit genealogiesofmodernity.org. Ryan McDermott, Producer and Genealogies of Modernity Project Director . Maria Devlin McNair, Senior Producer and Script Editor Jack Pombriant, Sound Designer Zachary Davis, Executive Producer (Ministry of Ideas) Special thanks: Dan Cheely, James DeMasi, Peter Fristedt, Max Glider, Jake Grefenstette, Darrah McDermott, Jess Sweeney, University of Pittsburgh Department of English and Humanities Center, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture Season 1 was written and produced by Ena Gojak and Owen Joyce-Coughlan with the support of Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture.

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Episode thumbnail for The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me

December 20, 2023

The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me

<p dir="ltr">The great English essayist and linguist Samuel Johnson was writing during the Enlightenment – the period some historians identify as the beginning of the modern age. American author and philosopher David Foster Wallace worked more than two centuries later, in the “post-modern” style. But these two writers shared a common problem: once modernity fractured society’s sense of shared moral norms, how could you write persuasively about morality? This episode looks at how Johnson and Wallace attempted to solve this problem; what struggles plagued their solutions; and why our modern, pluralistic landscape makes their work more valuable than ever.</p> <p dir="ltr">Researcher, writer, and episode producer: <a href="https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/people">Kirsten Hall Herlin</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Featured Scholars:<br /> Walter Jackson Bate (1918-1999), Professor of English, Harvard University<br /> <a href="https://www.mattbucher.com/">Matt Bucher</a>, Managing Editor, <em>The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies</em><br /> <a href="https://jacklynch.net/About/">Jack Lynch</a>, Professor of English, Rutgers University<br /> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/d-t-max/page/4">D. T. Max</a>, Staff Writer, <em>The New Yorker</em></p> <p dir="ltr">Special thanks: Dutton Kearney</p> <p> </p>

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December 13, 2023

A Genealogy of Gun Violence

<p dir="ltr">The problem of gun violence is as old as guns themselves. According to historian Priya Satia, America’s present epidemic of gun violence has its roots in the industrial revolution. Satia tells the story of British gun-maker Samuel Galton, Jr., who was called to task by his Quaker community for manufacturing rifles. As a professed pacifist, Galton had to wrestle with the large-scale uses to which his weapons were put. So where do we look for answers about how to regulate guns? Some claim the answer has to lie in the past, in the nation’s founding documents. Others argue that novel technologies demand novel solutions. Solving the problem of gun violence may be a case where we need to make a strong modernity claim. </p> <p dir="ltr">Researcher, writer, and episode producer: <a href= "https://www.haa.pitt.edu/people/christopher-j-nygren">Christopher Nygren</a>, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh</p> <p dir="ltr">Featured Scholars: </p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://catherinefletcher.info/">Catherine Fletcher</a>, Professor of History, Manchester Metropolitan University</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://history.stanford.edu/people/priya-satia">Priya Satia</a>, Professor of History, Stanford University</p> <p dir="ltr">Special thanks: James DeMasi, Chloé Hogg, Jonathan Lyonhart, Pernille Røge, Jennifer Waldron, Catherine Yanko</p> <p> </p>

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December 6, 2023

A Medieval Anti-Racist

<p dir="ltr">What if racism shared an origin with opposition to racism? What if the condemnation of injustice gave rise both to an early form of anti-racism <em>and</em> to the racial hierarchies that haunt the modern era? Rolena Adorno, David Orique, María Cristina Ríos Espinosa tell the story of how Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican missionary to New Spain, came to racial consciousness in the presence of slavery. His intellectual rebellion spurred slavery’s apologists to more strident and sinister modes of defense – but also laid a lasting Christian groundwork for the fight against racial injustice.</p> <p dir="ltr">Researcher, writer, and episode producer: <a href= "https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/humanities/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=terence.sweeney@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long"> Terence Sweeney</a>, Assistant Teaching Professor, Honors College, Villanova University</p> <p dir="ltr">Featured Scholars: </p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://span-port.yale.edu/people/rolena-adorno">Rolena Adorno</a>, Sterling Professor Emerita of Spanish, Yale University</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://scholar.google.com.mx/citations?user=VXcwCQ0AAAAJ&hl=es"> María Cristina Ríos Espinosa</a>, Professor of Arts, Humanities, and Culture, University of Sor Juana’s Cloister, Mexico City</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://history.providence.edu/faculty-members/fr-david-orique-o-p-ph-d/"> David Orique</a>, Professor of History, Providence College</p> <p dir="ltr">Special thanks: Chiyuma Elliott, Michael Sawyer</p> <p> </p>

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What is Genealogies of Modernity?

Season 2 of Genealogies of Modernity is a limited series from the Genealogies of Modernity Project and Ministry of Ideas. Each episode takes up a well-worn story about what it means to be modern and how we got here, and then challenges that narrative with recent humanities scholarship. Genealogies of Modernity illuminates lesser-known pathways to the present and unearths overlooked resources from the past for flourishing in the future.

Genealogies of Modernity is a project of Beatrice Institute and Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. For responses to the series, teaching aids, as well as artwork and videos, visit genealogiesofmodernity.org.

Ryan McDermott, Producer and Genealogies of Modernity Project Director . Maria Devlin McNair, Senior Producer and Script Editor Jack Pombriant, Sound Designer Zachary Davis, Executive Producer (Ministry of Ideas)

Special thanks: Dan Cheely, James DeMasi, Peter Fristedt, Max Glider, Jake Grefenstette, Darrah McDermott, Jess Sweeney, University of Pittsburgh Department of English and Humanities Center, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture

Season 1 was written and produced by Ena Gojak and Owen Joyce-Coughlan with the support of Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture.

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