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The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and
poetics This book explores the rich and complex relationship
between art and poetry, shedding invaluable light on what makes
each art form unique yet wholly interdependent. Jacques Maritain
insists on the part played by the intellect as well as the
imagination, showing how poetry has its source in the preconceptual
activity of the rational mind. As Maritain argues, intellect is not
merely logical and conceptual reason. Rather, it carries on an
exceedingly more profound and obscure life, one that is revealed to
us as we seek to penetrate the hidden recesses of poetic and
artistic activity. Incisive and authoritative, this illuminating
book is the product of a lifelong reflection on the meaning of
artistic expression in all its varied forms.
Jacques Maritain was deeply engaged in the intellectual and
political life of France through the turbulent decades that
included the two world wars. Accordingly, his philosophical
reflections often focus on an attempt to discover man's role in
sustaining a social and political order that seeks and maintains
both liberty and peace. "Scholasticism and Politics", first
published in 1940, is a collection of nine lectures Maritain
delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. While the lectures
address a variety of diverse topics, they explore three broad
topics: the nature of modern culture, its relationship to
Christianity, and the origins of the crisis which has engulfed it;
the true nature and authentic foundations of human freedom and
dignity and the threats posed to them by the various materialist
and naturalistic philosophies that dominate the modern cultural
scene; and, the principles that provide the authentic foundation of
a social order in accord with human dignity. Maritain championed
the cause of what he called personalist democracy - a regime
committed to popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, limited
government, and individual freedom. He believed a personalist
democracy offered the modern world the possibility of a political
order most in keeping with the demands of human dignity, Christian
values, and the common good.
Originally titled Frontieres de la poesie (1935), This book by
Jacques Maritain, whose philosophical writings read as
interestingly as a novel, will be welcomed by all who are seeking a
better understanding of the art of our time. The book delves into
Maritain s thoughts on the nature and subjectivity of art and
poetry. As a philosopher, Maritain attempts to define the two
concepts, describing art and poetry as virtues, and as primarily
concerned with beauty. Rather than focus on aesthetic theory,
Maritain examines the concepts at a more tangible level, including
a discussion of how they are made. The principles established with
such precision and brilliance in his earlier work Art and
Scholasticism, which has had such a deep influence on contemporary
artists, are successfully put to the test in illuminating the
creative works of such diverse artists as Rouault, Marc Chagall,
Gino Sevirini, and Arthur Lourie. Jacques Maritain was a French
Catholic philosopher and political thinker. He was born in Paris in
1882, where he spent most of his life. His father was a prominent
lawyer and his mother the daughter of a statesman. He attended the
Sorbonne to study philosophy and natural science, and after
marrying, he and his wife converted to Catholicism. It was after
this he became a well-known scholar of St. Thomas Aquinas and
Thomistic philosophy. He published widely on philosophical and
political thought, and by the 1930s, he was an established thinker
in the Catholic community. After the outbreak of WWII, Maritain
relocated to the United States, where he taught at Princeton
University and Columbia University. Later in life, he and his wife
returned to France, where he continued to write and study Catholic
scholarship until his death in 1973.
The three books presented in this volume, Integral Humanism,
Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, were all
written in the early 1930s, a time of dire trouble for France.
France was then surrounded by enemies preparing for war and was
itself so violently split between parties of Left and Right that it
seemed on the verge of civil war. In this collection, Jacques
Maritain accepts the responsibility of a Christian philosopher to
actively address the agonizing practical problems of the time.
Maritain discusses major political issues such as the relation of
freedom and religion, the opposition of democracy to any form of
totalitarianism, the relation of the spiritual and the temporal,
the need for an integral and Christian humanism, and the prospects
for a new Christian civilization, all in opposition to the
materialism of both communism and capitalism. Against the fierce
antagonism of the parties of the political Left and Right, Maritain
declares a plague on both their houses and strongly affirms the
need for independence from both of them. He does so by
distinguishing between two senses of the terms Left and Right, one
denoting a temperamental or physiological disposition, the other a
definite political position. In the latter sense, Maritain asserts
that he is an independent, while acknowledging that he is, by
temperament, a man of the Left.
In this collection of three beautifully written essays, the
distinguished philosopher Jacques Maritain presents his reflections
on the role of philosophy in the life of man as a social being. In
his concern for the social relevance of philosophy, Professor
Maritain writes of the ways in which philosophy helps one to live.
His essays are a dear and persuasive statement of why the world
needs philosophers, and of how the pursuit of truth and
intellectual justice requires fellowship among men of different
faiths. Two of the essays, "Truth and Human Fellowship" and "The
Philosopher in Society," were given as lectures at the Graduate
School of Princeton University. The third, "God and Science," is a
new statement from Professor Maritain on the relation of modern
science to man's knowledge of God. Originally published in 1961.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Jacques Maritain was deeply engaged in the intellectual and
political life of France through the turbulent decades that
included the two world wars. Accordingly, his philosophical
reflections often focus on an attempt to discover man's role in
sustaining a social and political order that seeks and maintains
both liberty and peace. "Scholasticism and Politics", first
published in 1940, is a collection of nine lectures Maritain
delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. While the lectures
address a variety of diverse topics, they explore three broad
topics: the nature of modern culture, its relationship to
Christianity, and the origins of the crisis which has engulfed it;
the true nature and authentic foundations of human freedom and
dignity and the threats posed to them by the various materialist
and naturalistic philosophies that dominate the modern cultural
scene; and, the principles that provide the authentic foundation of
a social order in accord with human dignity. Maritain championed
the cause of what he called personalist democracy - a regime
committed to popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, limited
government, and individual freedom. He believed a personalist
democracy offered the modern world the possibility of a political
order most in keeping with the demands of human dignity, Christian
values, and the common good.
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Additional Contributors Include John V. Walsh, Bruno De Solages,
Aurel Kolnai, Gabriel Marcel, Michele Federico Sciacca, Henri De
Lubac, Robert W. Gleason, And Jacques Albert Cuttat. The Orestes
Brownson Series On Contemporary Thoughts And Affairs, No. 3.
Additional Contributors Include John V. Walsh, Bruno De Solages,
Aurel Kolnai, Gabriel Marcel, Michele Federico Sciacca, Henri De
Lubac, Robert W. Gleason, And Jacques Albert Cuttat. The Orestes
Brownson Series On Contemporary Thoughts And Affairs, No. 3.
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