Overview
Where did they come from, these furiously self-righteous social justice warriors? Having declared that God is dead, Friedrich Nietzsche identified the will to power as the fundamental force of human life. There is no good or evil in a Nietzschean world--only the interests of the strong. Reason and the common good have no place there. As Nietzsche's ideas have permeated our culture, a new generation of radicals has embraced the rhetoric and tactics of the will to power. But the strength of America's residual Puritanism keeps them only half-baked Nietzscheans. More Christian than they care to admit, they cling to a moralism that Nietzsche would despise. The incoherence of their mixed creed dooms social justice warriors to perpetual frustration. Their identity politics generates ever more radical demands that can never be satisfied, further fracturing a society in desperate need of a unifying myth. We seem to be left with only two options, Mitchell concludes--Nietzsche or Christ, the will to power or the will to truth. The choice is bracingly simple.
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Author: Mark T Mitchell ,
Jim Denison
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200168828
Publication Date: 09 March 2021
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Format: Audio
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Author Information
Mark T. Mitchell is the Dean of Academic Affairs and professor of government at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia. He earned his PhD at Georgetown University and is the cofounder and president of the online journal Front Porch Republic. His six previous books include The Limits of Liberalism, The Politics of Gratitude, and Localism in the Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto. Jim Denison is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and a Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) Voice Arts Award nominee. He has experience as an actor on a variety of television shows and movies, appearing on Netflix, HBO, the National Geographic Channel, Investigation Discovery, and other networks, as well as appearances and voice-overs in regional and national television and radio ads. A Florida native, he has worked and traveled in many locations within the United States and abroad. For five years he hosted religious programs broadcast from several Caribbean radio stations. He changed careers to voice-over and audiobook narration after forty years of working with Christian churches in Florida, Texas, Trinidad and Tobago, Alabama, South Carolina, Maryland, and Kentucky. Jim and his wife of over thirty-five years, Renee, currently reside in southern Indiana near Louisville, Kentucky. They have two grown daughters. He holds two master's degrees and a doctorate.
