Volume 96 (CD Edition)

Guests on Volume 96 • DAVID A. SMITH on the beginnings of the National Endowment for the Arts and the capacity of the arts in a democracy for combatting atomistic individualism• KIKU ADATTO on how images, words, and ideas interact in a visually saturated culture and on how the image of a person's face in a photograph has the capacity for intimate representation of inner personhood• ELVIN T. LIM on how presidential speeches have been dumbed down for decades and why presidents like it• DAVID NAUGLE on the deeper meaning of happiness, the disordering effects of sin, and the reordering of love made possible in our redemption• RICHARD STIVERS on the technologizing of all of life• JOHN BETZ on the critique of the Enlightenment offered by Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), and why it still matters to us A digital edition of this Volume is also available Click here to download a pdf file with the contents listing and bibliographic information about this Volume. David A. Smith "To the extent