John Milbank is my hero

[fatestorm]

"While libertarianism insists that the future lies with the isolated 'reflective' individual, managing and manipulating a plethora of life-choices, chances and risks, it nonetheless seeks also to claim that civil society is in good heart, and that new forms of community are emerging: one cites sporting associations, women's support networks, single

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[anonymous]

Your color-scheme makes these hard to read - Ian

[fatestorm]

Alas... I think I have completely forgotten what little coding skill I developed in order to make it that way in the first place. At least when you click on the 'comment' button, it goes to the easy-to-read black on white full screen mode. ^^

[fatestorm]

Also, Milbank is going after a more leftist libertarianism (think English context) than the libertarianism you espouse. It might be equally translated as "individualism" or "the right to assert one's special individual identity" (cum Foucault). He takes issue with folks like us too, naturally, but he treats that under a different heading (a critique of capitalism in general and especially a reification of the free market).