Tag Archives: hegel

Review: The Gulag Archipelago

Posted on November 28, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago: A Literary Investigation I-II. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1974 [1973]. Few books are written with raw, electric energy. Solzhenitsyn’s work can only be labeled as a testimony to the 20th century and its … Continue reading →

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Systematic Theology, volume 2 (Wolfhart Pannenberg)

Posted on November 4, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

Review: Pannenberg, Wolfhart.  Systematic Theology volume 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1991. Translated by Geoffrey Bromiley. (His name is pronounced “Volf-hart,” not “Wolf-Heart.”  He is not a character in a Twilight fan fiction). What would a Christology from below look like if it were … Continue reading →

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The Future of Love (Milbank)

Posted on August 2, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

I’ve been critical of Radical Orthodoxy in the past.  I think it’s ontology mutes all distinctions, or wants to anyway.  Nonetheless, John Milbank is just fun to read.  And check out his twitter account. Tweets by johnmilbank3 I’m posting this … Continue reading →

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Some notes on social Marxism

Posted on June 25, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

I am going to call it social marxism rather than Cultural Marxism, and for a few reasons.  Cultural Marxism is a specific subset of Critical Theory that draws from Marcuse and Fromm.  Most of the hucksters today aren’t actually peddling … Continue reading →

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Review: The God Who Is There (Schaeffer)

Posted on June 9, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

I first read this book in 2002 and it was the primer that got me into apologetics and philosophy.  From Schaeffer I moved to James Sire; from Sire to Douglas Groothuis, and from Groothuis to Cornelius Van Til. The book … Continue reading →

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Covenantal Relations in the Trinity

Posted on March 16, 2018 by J. B. Aitken

One of the Reformed Thomist criticisms of Kuyper, Vos, etc., is that they posited covenantal relations in the Trinity.  And this is bad because of Hegel or something.  I want to do two things: actually see what they say and … Continue reading →

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Review: Karl Marx, Early Writings

Posted on October 23, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

It’s rare that you get to see evidence of demonization in a writer, but you can see that with Marx. Accordingly, some essays are hard to read. That might not be entirely fair, though. Marx is dealing with Hegel–no easy … Continue reading →

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Review: Reason and Revolution

Posted on February 21, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

by Herbert Marcuse Marcuse outlines Hegel’s thought and suggests how it informed the later rise of social theory and critical theory. The book is a fine exposition of Hegel and Marx. It suffers, however, by rarely attaching the two. Therefore, … Continue reading →

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Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit

Posted on February 13, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

Where to begin a review on a book of this magnitude? While this might seem like a difficult question, the easiest answer is also the most Hegelian: start anywhere, for you will end up in the final moment of the … Continue reading →

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Truth and Method (Review)

Posted on January 28, 2017 by J. B. Aitken

This is one of those great moments where a great student follows his master (Heidegger) yet gives us a new product and not simply a repetition of his master. In short, for Gadamer language is the horizon of being. As … Continue reading →

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