Challenges and renewals

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CHALLENGES AND RENEWALS
Jacques Maritain
Edited by Joseph W. Evans and Leo R. Ward
This one-volume omnibus of Jacques Maritain's most challenging insights is a fitting monument to a man whom T. S. Eliot called "the most conspicuous figure and probably the most powerful force in contemporary philosophy."
Here the editors have compiled, with introductory commentary, many of Maritain's most significant writings in six areas: Theory of Knowledge, Metaphysics, Ethics, Esthetics, Politics, and Philosophy of History.
Maritain has come to grips with many of the most critical problems that have confronted twentieth-century man, and there is in his work a powerful renewal of the philosophia perennis. This renewal constitutes a powerful challenge to all who take ideas seriously.
Etienne Gilson has said, "Jacques Maritain is growing greater and greater with the years and I am not sure that even we, who admire him so much, are fully alive to the lasting significance of his work."... Tovább

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CHALLENGES AND RENEWALS
Jacques Maritain
Edited by Joseph W. Evans and Leo R. Ward
This one-volume omnibus of Jacques Maritain's most challenging insights is a fitting monument to a man whom T. S. Eliot called "the most conspicuous figure and probably the most powerful force in contemporary philosophy."
Here the editors have compiled, with introductory commentary, many of Maritain's most significant writings in six areas: Theory of Knowledge, Metaphysics, Ethics, Esthetics, Politics, and Philosophy of History.
Maritain has come to grips with many of the most critical problems that have confronted twentieth-century man, and there is in his work a powerful renewal of the philosophia perennis. This renewal constitutes a powerful challenge to all who take ideas seriously.
Etienne Gilson has said, "Jacques Maritain is growing greater and greater with the years and I am not sure that even we, who admire him so much, are fully alive to the lasting significance of his work."
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In his writings Maritain has progressively fashioned a social and political thought that has come to grips with communism, fascism, and other forms of totalitarianism, and with present-day forms and remnants of nineteenth-century individualism. His arguments have such incisiveness and originality that it is truly an intellectual experience to read any of his works.
Professor Maritain's writings have appeared in so many books that it will be a great service to readers to have so much of his material collected within the covers of a single volume.
In some instances new translations have been made from the French, and other material has never before appeared in English translation. The editors have worked in close cooperation with Professor Maritain during their work on this volume.
Dr. Joseph W. Evans has been a member of the department of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame since 1950, and is Director of The Jacques Maritain Center at the University.
Leo R. Ward, C.S.C., the author and editor of a number of books, has been a member of the department of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame since 1928. Vissza