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Jennings cites Jean-François Lyotard: Contemporary society no longer speaks of fraternity at all, whether Christian or republican. It only speaks of the sharing of the wealth and benefits of ‘development.’ Anything is permissible, within the limits of what is defined as distributive justice. We owe nothing other than services, and only among ourselves. We are socioeconomic partners in a very large business, that of development.8 A just and rightly ordered desire to be emancipated from oppression becomes an overwrought penchant to be liberated from every other, from the obligations of human community, from anything that impinges on the project of what David Brooks calls The Big Me.9

James K.A. Smith

Jennings cites Jean-François Lyotard: Contemporary society no longer speaks of fraternity at all, whether Christian or republican. It only speaks of the sharing of the wealth and benefits of ‘development.’ Anything is permissible, within the limits of what is defined as distributive justice. We owe nothing other than services, and only among ourselves. We are socioeconomic partners in a very large business, that of development.8 A just and rightly ordered desire to be emancipated from oppression becomes an overwrought penchant to be liberated from every other, from the obligations of human community, from anything that impinges on the project of what David Brooks calls The Big Me.9

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About James K.A. Smith

James Kenneth Alexander Smith (born 1970) is a Canadian-American philosopher who is currently Professor of Philosophy at Calvin University, holding the Gary & Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology & Worldview. He is the current editor-in-chief of the literary journal Image.