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Imagining Europe: Essays on the Past, Present and Future of the
European Union examines the EU from a variety of perspectives. The
collection begins with the expectation that, despite its
challenges, the European Union is here to say, but it also proceeds
from the premise that imaginative thinking is necessary to guide
the 27 member organization into the future. The book offers nine
chapters and a substantive introduction to examine the EU from the
point-of-view of a commercial enterprise, the writings of Jose
Ortega y Gasset, immigration and public opinion, its relationship
with China, its management of political populism, the American
Federalist papers-and more. The first chapter is a summary of the
history, structure and processes of the European Union for the
convenience of those using this text in the classroom. The last
chapter considers this latest chapter of European development, in
light of the historical quest for a united Europe. The contributors
to the volume are scholars residing in the U.S., Poland, France,
Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Turkey.
Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor
(1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories,
various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her
life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new
generations of readers and poses important questions about human
nature, ethics, social change, equality, and justice. Although
political philosophy was not O'Connor's pursuit, her writings
frequently address themes that are not only crucial to American
life and culture, but also offer valuable insight into the
interplay between fiction and politics. A Political Companion to
Flannery O'Connor explores the author's fiction, prose, and
correspondence to reveal her central ideas about political thought
in America. The contributors address topics such as O'Connor's
affinity with writers and philosophers including Eric Voegelin,
Edith Stein, Russell Kirk, and the Agrarians; her attitudes toward
the civil rights movement; and her thoughts on controversies over
eugenics. Other essays in the volume focus on O'Connor's
influences, the principles underlying her fiction, and the value of
her work for understanding contemporary intellectual life and
culture. Examining the political context of O'Connor's life and her
responses to the critical events and controversies of her time,
this collection offers meaningful interpretations of the political
significance of this influential writer's work.
While Flannery O'Connor is hailed as one of the most important
writers of the twentieth-century American south, few appreciate
O'Connor as a philosopher as well. In Return to Good and Evil,
Henry T. Edmondson introduces us to a remarkable thinker who uses
fiction to confront and provoke us with the most troubling moral
questions of modern existence. 'Right now the whole world seems to
be going through a dark night of the soul,' O'Connor once said, in
response to the nihilistic tendencies she saw in the world around
her. Nihilism-Nietzche's idea that 'God is dead'-preoccupied
O'Connor, and she used her fiction to draw a tableau of human
civilization on the brink of a catastrophic moral, philosophical,
and religious crisis. Again and again, O'Connor suggests that the
only way back from this precipice is to recognize the human need
for grace, redemption, and God. She argues brilliantly and
persuasively through her novels and short stories that the
Nietzschean challenge to the notions of good and evil is an
ill-conceived effort that will result only in disaster. With rare
access to O'Connor's correspondence, prose drafts, and other
personal writings, Edmondson investigates O'Connor's deepest
motivations through more than just her fiction and illuminates the
philosophical and theological influences on her life and work.
Edmondson argues that O'Connor's artistic brilliance and
philosophical genius reveal the only possible response to the
nihilistic despair of the modern world: a return to good and evil
through humility and grace.
While Flannery O'Connor is hailed as one of the most important
writers of the twentieth-century American south, few appreciate
O'Connor as a philosopher as well. In Return to Good and Evil,
Henry T. Edmondson introduces us to a remarkable thinker who uses
fiction to confront and provoke us with the most troubling moral
questions of modern existence. "Right now the whole world seems to
be going through a dark night of the soul," O'Connor once said, in
response to the nihilistic tendencies she saw in the world around
her. Nihilism Nietzche's idea that "God is dead" preoccupied
O'Connor, and she used her fiction to draw a tableau of human
civilization on the brink of a catastrophic moral, philosophical,
and religious crisis. Again and again, O'Connor suggests that the
only way back from this precipice is to recognize the human need
for grace, redemption, and God. She argues brilliantly and
persuasively through her novels and short stories that the
Nietzschean challenge to the notions of good and evil is an
ill-conceived effort that will result only in disaster. With rare
access to O'Connor's correspondence, prose drafts, and other
personal writings, Edmondson investigates O'Connor's deepest
motivations through more than just her fiction and illuminates the
philosophical and theological influences on her life and work.
Edmondson argues that O'Connor's artistic brilliance and
philosophical genius reveal the only possible response to the
nihilistic despair of the modern world: a return to good and evil
through humility and grace."
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."
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