Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today
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Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today

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Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today

About this book

This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and postmodernity, repentance and self-limitation, and philosophy and politics. These tensions are explored through the works of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Augustine, and Tocqueville, but the contributors engage a wide variety of texts from popular culture, American literature-Flannery O'Connor receives notable attention-and social theory to create a remarkably comprehensive, if far from harmonious, introduction to political philosphy today.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2001
eBook ISBN
9780739154960
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. APPLICATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction - Peter Augustine Lawler
  7. Chapter 1 - Autonomy and Community in Aristotle
  8. Chapter 2 - Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History
  9. Chapter 3 - On Spiritual Crisis, Globalization, and Planetary Rule
  10. Chapter 4 - Stoics and Christians: Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor on the Moral Contradictions of Southern Culture
  11. Chapter 5 - Leo Straus, America, and the End of History
  12. Chapter 6 - End of History 2000
  13. Chapter 7 - The Ascent from Modernity: Solzhenitsyn on “Repentance and Self-Limitation in the Life of Nations”
  14. Chapter 8 - Trevanian’s Shibumi: The Perfect Postmodern Tale
  15. Chapter 9 - Aristoteles Revivus: Pierre Manent’s Reflections on “The Contemporary Political World”
  16. Chapter 10 - A Postmodern Augustinian Recovery of Political Judgment
  17. Chapter 11 - Tocqueville, Girard, and the Mystique of Anti-Modernism
  18. Chapter 12 - Christianity’s Epicurean Temptation
  19. Chapter 13 - Flannery O’Connor’s Teaching on the Nature of Evil in “The Lame Shall Enter First”
  20. Chapter 14 - Captain Kirk and the Art of Rule
  21. Index
  22. About the Contributors