Essay [Essay] The Constitution of Culture 4 Aug 20215 Aug 2021 Specifying Objects and Jacques Maritain on the Temporal Order Brian Kemple, PhDExecutive DirectorLyceum InstituteEditor, Reality But it remains that culture and civilization have a specifying object—the earthly and perishable good…
Essay [Essay] Tradition of Questioning 29 Aug 2020 A challenge to Thomists at the Digital Crossroads Brian Kemple, PhDExecutive EditorReality Nearly a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, we Thomists and those of similar intellectual pedigree…
Book Review… [Book Review] Nihilism & Technology | Nihilism 30 Jun 20201 Jul 2020 A review of and response to Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Ltd.) and Nihilism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019). Ecce Homo Creator: a Tragedy Brian…
Article [Article] Signs and Reality 9 Dec 201919 Mar 2020 An advocation for semiotic realism[1] Brian Kemple, PhD Continuum Philosophical Insight Executive Editor, Reality ABSTRACT: The world today has a “meaning” problem. That is: while the attainment of “meaning” poses…
Book Review… [Book Review] What Love Is 11 Nov 201916 Jun 2020 Written by Brian Kemple A review of and response to Carrie Jenkins’ What Love Is: And What It Could Be, (New York: Basic Books, 2017).[1] The Ruin and Salvation of…
Article [Article] Interpretation and Traditions 10 Jul 201915 Oct 2019 Written by Brian Kemple [download pdf]An intersection for semiotics, phenomenology, and Thomism My topic in this article develops from themes I have advanced or at least suggested in both Ens Primum…
Book Review… [Book Review] Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny 19 Jun 201918 Dec 2019 Written by Brian Kemple A review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press: New York, 2018) Semantic Activism in the Service of Ideology “So maybe…
Essay [Essay] Participation and the Divine 19 May 20196 Aug 2019 Written by Brian Kemple Examining Thomas Aquinas’ fourth way of proving the existence of God, readers may discover a number of difficulties as to how it should be interpreted:[1] The…
