Ben Jones is the Assistant Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Research Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University. On this episode of Political Theory Review, Jones discusses his new Cambridge University Press book, Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope. The book argues that “we can gain […]
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