Peter Augustine Lawler (MHT-056)

Thursday, September 02, 2010



"Just because you have a big brain doesn't mean contentment is yours, any being with a body is going to have problems that the brain can't simply solve for them." —Peter Augustine Lawler Professor Peter Augustine Lawler discusses the difference between modern and postmodern mentalities. Lawler is author of Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls. The modern mentality he says, believed nature could be conquered in order to create a world in which people were completely at home; the postmodern mentality, however, believes that people are limited and can never be fully at home in the world. He explains what it means that people are both aliens in the cosmos and lost in the cosmos. He also notes what writer Walker Percy wrote about being lost aliens, how he encouraged people to try to be at home with their homelessness.	Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls (ISI Books, 2001)

On the bonus track for Volume 56, Peter Augustine Lawler talks about some of the writing of David Brooks and Francis Fukuyama. Click here to listen to the segment. (Left click to stream; right click to save.) Additional information about Peter Augustine Lawler is available through the web pages of ISI Books. Peter Augustine Lawler has contributed to multiple editions of the Journal; click here for his record.	Modernity Postmodernism Percy, Walker

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