Are you a fan of Carl Truman's book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self?

If that's you, his new book, Strange New World, how thinkers and activists redefined identity

and sparked the sexual revolution is for you. Offering a more concise presentation and application of some of the most important issues

he addressed in the rise and triumph of the modern self, this new book, Strange New World,

shows how influences, ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography,

moved modern culture toward an era of expressive individualism.

Investigating philosophies from the Romantics to the New Left, Carl outlines the history of

Western thought and explains the modern implications of these ideas on religion, free speech,

and personal identity. Today, we're pleased to share the preface by Ryan T. Anderson

in the first chapter from the audiobook, right here on the Crossway podcast.

Let's get started.

Crossway presents Strange New World,

how thinkers and activists redefined identity and sparked the sexual revolution,

written and read by Carl R. Truman.

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In late 2020, while the world was on lockdown due to COVID-19, Carl Truman published one of the

most important books of the past several decades. In the rise and triumph of the modern self,

cultural amnesia, expressive individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution, Truman built

on insights of contemporary thinkers such as Charles Taylor, Philip

Reef and Alastair McIntyre.

To show how modern thinkers and artists, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau,

Friedrich Nietz, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Percy Bischelli and William Blake, gave expression

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