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Philosophical Myths of the Fall by Stephen Mulhall

‘For readers attuned to these (conversations about humanity’s “fallenness,”) Stephen Mulhall’s “Philosophical Myths of the Fall” will be neither surprising nor counterintuitive. But we should not therefore underestimate the element of scandal in Mulhall’s project, which is to suggest that key canonical figures in modern philosophy - Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein - reinscribe the Christian doctrine of original sin. As Mulhall puts it, “all three in fact engender a conception of the human condition that constantly inclines them to reiterate elements of a distinctively Christian structure of thought.” The result is a “secularized conception of the self and its world” - a translation of the particularities of Christian confession into more neutral or more universal categories, and thus unhitched from any specific faith commitments.’ Read the review at Christianity Today. Buy the book at Amazon.com.

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