Pierre Manent’s (2015) Beyond Radical Secularism: How France the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge (translated by Ralph Hancock) is [recall this post] structured around a two-fold contrast between a good and bad providentialism (e.g.
Islamism is integralism taken seriously. Vermeule isn't calling for putting heretics to death because it's not politically salable, but that's what his position implies.
Manent's title reminds us that integralist/theocratic states and movements will go to war with each other over invisible theological distinctions.
Islamism is integralism taken seriously. Vermeule isn't calling for putting heretics to death because it's not politically salable, but that's what his position implies.
Manent's title reminds us that integralist/theocratic states and movements will go to war with each other over invisible theological distinctions.