On Augustine - The Two Cities

Informationen zum Autor Alan Ryan , after decades at Princeton University, was warden of New College, University of Oxford, where he was a professor of political theory. He is the author of John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and Bertrand Russell: A Political Life , among other works. Klappentext Augustine's political philosophy is pregnant with arguments that racked not only Christian Europe but also much of the modern world. In On Augustine Alan Ryan carefully lays out the complicated political, philosophical and religious context of Augustine and traces the history of his impact on Western thought both within and beyond the Christian tradition. Zusammenfassung No philosopher speaks more immediately to the excesses of our twenty-first-century world and the limits of human reason than Augustine.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Ryan
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.11.2015
• EAN: 9780871407078
• ISBN: 978-0-87140-707-8
• Series: Liveright; Liveright Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, social and political philosophy