A professor who challenges conventional views on classical liberalism will teach this year at the University of Colorado at Boulder about the problems of “modernity.”
University of Notre Dame Professor Patrick Deneen is the newest “Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy” at CU Boulder.
Deneen (pictured) will teach a class called “Critics of Modernity” this fall within the university’s Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization.
The reading list for the course will include Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Augusto del Noce, Wendell Berry, Matthew Crawford, Robert Nisbet, Christopher Lasch, and Alastair MacIntyre, Deneen told The College Fix recently via email.
“While these thinkers differ not only in emphases, but also in substance and remedies, they all believe a modern crisis has arisen because of departures from an older wisdom – whether religious, philosophical, or practical,” a Benson Center email states.
Deneen’s course will feature writers and thinkers who are “critical of various aspects of ‘modernity’ – such as utilitarianism, secularism, individualism, liberalism, capitalism, industrialism, progressivism, and technologism,” according to a description from the Benson Center. […]
— Read More: www.thecollegefix.com
