... virtue of the attraction of the consumma-tions but also in virtue of the kind of life and kind of subject thatthese desires properly belong to.13 The hermeneutical operation of agency lies in the ... construed.28In other words, the critical effects of skepticism,doubt, and the rational ordering of the world (what Max Weber called ‘ the rationalization of the world’’) induce the melancholy of modernity, ... particular, whether the freedom of the will hinges on the effects of external forces, such as the divine,nature, history, or the passions.4With the aim of identifying the religious sig-nificance of contemporary...