Description: Further DetailsTitle: Augustine and the Limits of PoliticsCondition: NewISBN-10: 0268020019EAN: 9780268020019ISBN: 9780268020019Edition: With a New Foreword by Patrick J. DeneenPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/30/2018Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 230gAuthor: Jean Bethke ElshtainContributor: Patrick J. Deneen (Foreword by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular WorldDescription: Now with a new foreword by Patrick J. Deneen. Jean Bethke Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and presents an Augustine who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic virtue. The result is a controversial book about one of the world's greatest and most complex thinkers whose thought continues to haunt all of Western political philosophy. What is our business "within this common mortal life?" Augustine asks and bids us to ask ourselves. What can Augustine possibly have to say about the conditions that characterize our contemporary society and appear to put democracy in crisis? Who is Augustine for us now and what do his words have to do with political theory? These are the underlying questions that animate Jean Bethke Elshtain's fascinating engagement with the thought and work of Augustine, the ancient thinker who gave no political theory per se and refused to offer up a positive utopia. In exploring the questions, Why Augustine, why now? Elshtain argues that Augustine's great works display a canny and scrupulous attunement to the here and now and the very real limits therein. She discusses other aspects of Augustine's thought as well, including his insistence that no human city can be modeled on the heavenly city, and further elaborates on Hannah Arendt's deep indebtedness to Augustine's understanding of evil. Elshtain also presents Augustine's arguments against the pridefulness of philosophy, thereby linking him to later currents in modern thought, including Wittgenstein and Freud.Topic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Augustine and the Limits of Politics
Title: Augustine and the Limits of Politics
ISBN-10: 0268020019
EAN: 9780268020019
ISBN: 9780268020019
Edition: With a New Foreword by Patrick J. Deneen
Release Date: 04/30/2018
Release Year: 2018
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Patrick J. Deneen (Foreword by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 174 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Augustine and the Limits of Politics
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: History & Surveys / Medieval, Religious, Religion, Politics & State
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.1 Oz
Author: Jean Bethke Elshtain
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
