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I’m almost finished. I’m really astonished at how badly the reviewers at TGC, CT, and Mere Orthodoxy simply don’t understand what Du Mez is conveying. These symbols are not instances of cause and effect in any reductive sense. Du Mez is providing Geertzian “thick descriptions” of how these symbols carry meaning and organize shared life within particular contexts, and therefore remain incredibly formative.

Critics of Dewey, take note:

“The paradox of John Dewey’s reputation is that, although he gained worldwide recognition during his own lifetime and has unquestionably earned a place in the panoply of the world’s great educators, his actual influence on the schools of the nation has been both seriously overestimated and grossly distorted.”

I’m no literary critic by any means, but I think Bazarov reflects the nihilist better than Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov.