tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post3297607860480590780..comments2024-03-28T02:54:46.537-04:00Comments on The TOF Spot: The Autumn of the Modern Ages: The Age of Science; the Secular Age; ConclusionTheOFloinnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-5393230721573830132016-01-25T08:44:47.484-05:002016-01-25T08:44:47.484-05:00I would also recommend the Kindle suggestion.I would also recommend the Kindle suggestion.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00108843791322871067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-25814356986238427862014-10-08T10:55:43.854-04:002014-10-08T10:55:43.854-04:00How about as a Kindle Single?
http://www.amazon.c...How about as a Kindle Single? <br />http://www.amazon.com/b?node=2486013011nybhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111907939712607618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-2919008957842500092014-10-01T03:58:40.295-04:002014-10-01T03:58:40.295-04:00Thank you so much for this. I also just finished E...Thank you so much for this. I also just finished <i>Eifelheim</i> and loved the palpable texture of the world you captured. I will need to pursue the Lukacs books, as well as the sources you used for <i>Eifelheim</i>; I am embarking on writing fantasy, rather than a time-travel tale to our own Middle Ages, but I'd like to capture even the smallest glimmer of the same reality you accomplished.<br /><br />It's a far and lovely cry from "everyone in every age is just a Modern who didn't know it yet" that shows up in so much modern (heh) fantasy and science fiction.Ceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13482821484517709012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-29184179478018577492014-09-30T17:19:23.715-04:002014-09-30T17:19:23.715-04:00Take a stab at reading the two Lukacs books, while...Take a stab at reading the two Lukacs books, while you're at it. Both are short and discursive volumes. I once had the privilege of taking the freshman Honors History course from him at LaSalle University (nee College). My only regret is that I was not old enough to really benefit from it fully. <br /><br />Now that I think of it, his book <i>A Thread of Years</i> also treats of the same matter, only in a very different way as it chronicles the decline and fall of the gentleman.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-10423618730957814132014-09-30T17:07:48.306-04:002014-09-30T17:07:48.306-04:00May I send my children to learn from you during th...May I send my children to learn from you during their summers? May I come, too?<br /><br />I think I will read this from time to time to acquaint myself with the scope of history. It has both a note of sadness and a force of levitation about it.<br /><br />Thank you.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06877019716219367152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-81397718040268818522014-09-29T09:51:59.981-04:002014-09-29T09:51:59.981-04:00As far as I can tell, modernism has gone through s...<i> As far as I can tell, modernism has gone through several phases</i><br /><br />So did the medieval ages. The Paris under the Burgundian Reign of Terror was not the Paris defended by Roderick the Beardless. So also did antiquity. The age of Augustine was not the age of Augustus, let alone that of the Scipios.<br /><br />That "Einstein proved everything is relative" was never a serious claim; but the notion that "everything is relative" is a tyranny that cannot be ignored. Had it not been Einstein, some other token would have been used. Copenhagen or not, quantum mechanics is very different from the mechanistic model of Newtonian mechanics on which late modern atheism and denial of free will erects its temples. Centrally-planned economies was a very modern thing; but Henry Tudor and Louis the Sun-King lacked the technological means to carry out their totalizing efforts. <br /><br />The Modern Thing was not confined to any single ideology. Rather, it was a framework within which most people perceived. They all believed in "progress," for example; but they did not all agree on which direction that was. Henry Newman was every bit as Modern as Robert Ingersoll. TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-28863155761260796632014-09-29T00:56:32.738-04:002014-09-29T00:56:32.738-04:00If we're in a post-modern era... Post which mo...If we're in a post-modern era... Post which modern? As far as I can tell, modernism has gone through several phases: the modernism of Descartes, the modernism of Jefferson, the modernism of Marx... Many of the things that were supposed to replace modernism are starting to fade in turn (the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the formerly-trendy claim that "Einstein proved everything is relative", centrally-planned economic systems, etc.).Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-21984554175885744442014-09-28T21:08:25.671-04:002014-09-28T21:08:25.671-04:00Thank you, that was well said.
BTW, I read Eifelh...Thank you, that was well said.<br /><br />BTW, I read Eifelheim a couple weeks ago and enjoyed immensely. You do understand that age and seem to effortlessly explain their logic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-82440524113833819942014-09-28T17:47:23.473-04:002014-09-28T17:47:23.473-04:00I've been thinking of Section 12 as an article...I've been thinking of Section 12 as an article to sell to ANALOG.<br /><br />I have no idea where the entire thing could be marketed. It's way too long for a magazine article; way too short for a book.TheOFloinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14756711106266484327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447603865959500290.post-3105215479131252672014-09-27T23:07:59.018-04:002014-09-27T23:07:59.018-04:00Does the omission of section 12 indicate that this...Does the omission of section 12 indicate that this series is, or will be, available in a more complete form elsewhere?Andrew Brewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974374883049619934noreply@blogger.com