Book Salon for To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World
Why do so many people in modern societies feel not at home in their worlds? How have they become so alienated from one another, the natural environment, and even themselves?
In To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World, Capita Senior Fellow Ian Marcus Corbin engages the fundamental questions surrounding friendship with oneself, one’s family, friends, community, nation, and species.
We invite you to join Capita and the Center for Christianity in Public Life on June 23rd at for a conversation on belonging & book signing.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Time: 6:00 – 8:30PM
Location: MindSpace, 1301 K Street NW
Lite bites served | Cash bar available
Books from @PoliticsProse
About To Arrive Where We Started: Belonging in the Modern World
Corbin begins with a deep humanistic and scientific dive into how humans inherit and refine their picture of the world in community, including what makes this process more or less successful. He goes on to examine some human cultures—Native American, African, and early American—that seem to have excelled at making their people feel at home. He contrasts these cultures with contemporary America in particular, a society characterized by a facsimile of belonging that substitutes a paranoid, self-protective culture of ownership for the self-opening practice of friendship. The book’s coda is a call to abandon the illusion of ownership and to reopen ourselves to friendship with each other, nature, and even the deepest sources of existence.
