Making the case for not “making the case”

I have a new article up at Boston Review on the idea that academics have failed to “make the case” for their value

Adam Kotsko is on the faculty of the Shimer Great Books School at North Central College, where he teaches widely in the humanities and social sciences. His research focuses on political theology, continental philosophy, and the history of Christian thought. He is the author, most recently, of Agamben’s Philosophical Trajectory, a comprehensive study of the Italian philosopher that emphasizes how his thought has evolved in response to political events, and What Is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life, a collection of essays on the perils and promise of modernity’s theological legacy.

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