Jan C. Bentz talks with Ernst-Peter Fischer, historian of science, about the beauty of mystery and whether is it scientifically possible to understand the world as enchanted.
In a time when our cultural reality is dominated by the ephemeral and the transient, the transcendent still manages to occasionally break through. When does this happen—and why? How can we modern people actively reach the perennial truth of the transcendent? And are we moderns able to adopt explicitly anti-modern attitudes?
In the Reality Check series, Jan C. Bentz explores these and other questions about philosophy, culture, art, and politics in discussions and interviews with some of today’s leading thinkers—all centered around the idea of conserving the real in a time of deconstruction.
Jan Bentz, native of Germany, teaches Philosophy at Blackfriars, Oxford. He has worked in journalism for over a decade based in Rome, Italy, covering the Vatican. His academic work focuses on Thomistic Metaphysics and Medieval thought in relation to Modernity.
