Carl R. Trueman - Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution

Foreword

Michael J. Sandel, The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self, Political Theory 12, no. 1 (February, 1984), 8196.

Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).

Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud , 40th anniversary ed. (1966; repr., Wilmington: ISI Books, 2006).

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Chapter 1: Welcome to This Strange New World

Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 33334.

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2007), 475.

Taylor, A Secular Age , 17172.

Chapter 2: Romantic Roots

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions , ed. Patrick Coleman, trans. Angela Scholar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 5, 270.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings , ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 78.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings , ed. and trans. Victor Gourevitch, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 41.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 39.

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Chapter 3: Prometheus Unbound

Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity , trans. George Eliot (New York: Harper and Row, 1957), 14.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx on Religion , ed. John Raines (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2002), 171.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science , trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1974), 108 (167). First published in German in 1887.

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Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1909), 73.

Oscar Wilde, The Major Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 48.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (London: Penguin, 2001), 105.

Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism , 152.

Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism , 136.

Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism , 137.

Chapter 4: Sexualizing Psychology, Politicizing Sex

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents , trans. James Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), 25.

Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents , 56.

Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality , trans. and ed. James Strachey (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 1718.

Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents , 73.

Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion , trans. and ed. James Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), 47.

Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism , ed. and trans. Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970), 29.

Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism , 30.

Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism , 30.

Wilhelm Reich, The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Regulating Character Structure , trans. Therese Pol (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1974), 23.

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Reich, The Sexual Revolution , xvi.

Augusto Del Noce, The Crisis of Modernity (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2015), 166.

Chapter 5: The Revolt of the Masses

Yuval Levin, A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream (New York: Basic Books, 2020), 3334.

Jason Blakely, We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), xxvi.

Chapter 6: Plastic People, Liquid World

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 2016).

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism , trans. Carol Macomber (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 29.

Chapter 7: The Sexual Revolution of the LGBTQ+

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex , trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, with an introduction by Judith Thurman (New York: Vintage, 2011), 283.

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Yogyakarta Principles , 27.

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Chapter 8: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

United States v. Windsor, 699 F. 3d 169 (2013), https:// www .law .cornell .edu /supreme court /text /12 -307 .

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833, 851 (1992), https:// www .law .cornell .edu /supreme court /text /505 /833 .

For the full text of the decision, see Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), https:// www .law .cornell .edu /supreme court /text /249 /47 %26 quot%3B .

For the full text of the decision, see Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), https:// www .law .cornell .edu /supreme court /text /395 /444 .

Repressive Tolerance was reprinted, with an afterword reflecting on the student unrest of 1968, in Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston, MA: Beacon, 1970), 81123.

Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance, 111.

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Chapter 9: Strangers in This Strange New World

Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud (1966; repr., Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006), 30.

For an an accessible translation, see St. Augustine, City of God , trans. Henry Bettenson (New York: Penguin, 2004).

Introduction

Many of us are familiar with books and movies whose plots revolve around central characters finding themselves trapped in a world where nothing behaves in quite the way they expect. Perhaps Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass might be the classic examples of this in childrens literature. But this is a standard plotline in many other works. From Franz Kafkas The Trial to The Matrix series of movies, dystopian confusion is a hardy perennial of our culture.