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Informationen zum Autor Peter Augustine Lawler is Professor of Government at Berry College. Dale McConkey is Associate Professor of Sociology at Berry College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Sociologist, and the coeditor of Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom (with Peter Augustine Lawler, 2000). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This is a collection of essays that address some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy! literature! religion! politics and theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Autonomy and Community in Aristotle Chapter 2 Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History Chapter 3 On Spiritual Crisis, Globalization, and Planetary Rule Chapter 4 Stoics and Christians: Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor on the Moral Contradictions of Southern Culture Chapter 5 Leo Strauss, America, and the End of History Chapter 6 End of History 2000 Chapter 7 The Ascent from Modernity: Solzhenitsyn on "Repentance and Self-Limitation in the Life of Nations" Chapter 8 Trevanian's Shibumi: The Perfect Postmodern Tale Chapter 9 Aristoteles Revivus: Pierre Manent's Reflections on "The Contemporary Political World" Chapter 10 A Postmodern Augustinian Recovery of Political Judgment Chapter 11 Tocqueville, Girard, and the Mystique of Anti-Modernism Chapter 12 Christianity's Epicurean Temptation: Reflections on Kenneth Craycraft's The American Myth of Religious Freedom Chapter 13 Flannery O'Connor's Teaching on the Nature of Evil in " The Lame Shall Enter First"...
