Books by Mark Lilla

That is from Mark Lilla’s new book The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction .  There is also this bit from the book:

2. The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West , by Mark Lilla.  Why Schleiermacher really matters, how Kant painted himself into a corner trying to solve the problems laid out by Rousseau, and why it all springs from Hobbes.  I found this well above average for its genre, though you must have a taste for Straussian-like books where big ideas clash at the macro level and there is little attempt at any kind of empirical resolution.