G. K. Chesterton - Thinking Backward, Looking Forward

Offering a detailed study of early 20th-century essayist, poet, novelist, political campaigner, and theologian G.K. Chesterton, author Stephen R.L. Clark explores Chesterton's ideas and arguments in their historical context, while also tracing the history of the early science fiction movement.

List of contents

Preface / ix
Introduction / 3
Part I: What’s Wrong with Science Fiction? / 9
1. The Case against Science Fiction / 11
2. In Defense of Science Fiction / 18
Part II: The Texts / 39
3. The Napoleon of Notting Hill / 41
4. The Man Who Was Thursday / 50
5. The Ball and the Cross / 55
6. The Flying Inn / 65
7. The Distributist Rebellion / 73
8. The Return of Don Quixote / 76
Part III: The Themes / 83
9. Nationalists and Jews / 85
10. Women and Men / 97
11. Medievalism, War, and Men’s Ideals / 104
12. Distributism and Anarchy / 115
13. Darwinism, Scientific and Social / 124
14. Animals and the Royal Animal / 144
15. Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Virtue / 161
16. Miracles and Religion / 174
Conclusion: Thinking Backward / 187
Notes / 201
Index / 241

About the author

  Stephen R. L. Clark is a professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, England. He received his D Phil from Oxford in 1973. Dr. Clark served as chief editor at the Journal of Applied Philosophy for eleven years and is now a member of its editorial board, as well as serving on the boards of Religious Studies and the Cambridge University Press series New Studies in Christian Ethics. Well-known for his interest in both religion and science fiction, he has lectured widely in the U.S. and the U.K. He has authored more than sixty scholarly articles, contributed chapters to seventy-five books, edited one book, and written fourteen others, including The Mysteries of Religion, Civil Peace and Sacred Order, How to Live Forever, Animals and their Moral Standing, and Biology and Christian Ethics. His current main work is on the philosopher Plotinus's ethics and psychology.
 

Product details

Authors	Stephen R L Clark, Stephen R. L. Clark
Publisher	Templeton Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.10.2006
EAN	9781599471044
ISBN	978-1-59947-104-4
No. of pages	288
Dimensions	161 mm x 237 mm x 24 mm
Weight	562 g
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

Product details

• Authors: Stephen R L Clark, Stephen R. L. Clark
• Publisher: Templeton Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2006
• EAN: 9781599471044
• ISBN: 978-1-59947-104-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 237 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies