From Nowhere to Someone: Personalist Realism as an Alternative to Academic Critique.
The article argues that academic critique has stalled because its ethics of endless emancipation through suspicion leads to an empty, nihilistic grounding, and it proposes personalist realism as a constructive alternative outside critique's orbit. Topics include the failure of emancipation as a guid...
| Published in: | Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 111 - 133 |
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Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought & Culture
Spring2026
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