Hedgehog Noontime Discussion (w/ Olivier Roy and James Davison Hunter)

The intensification of the culture wars is a sure sign that we are losing a common language by which to govern our social institutions and adjudicate our political disagreements. What are the prospects for renewing the cultural commons?
In this Hedgehog Noontime Discussion, Olivier Roy, professor at the European Institute in Florence, Italy, and author of The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms, and James Davison Hunter, professor at the University of Virginia and Institute founder and author of Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis, discuss their own respective views on the state of contemporary culture, including the question of whether there is culture anymore. This discussion was moderated by THR editor Jay Tolson.
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms global.oup.com...
Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis yalebooks.yale...
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture www.iasculture...
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