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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.
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.
This original translation, by Edward H. Flannery, brings you one of
Maritain s most eye-opening studies of Christianity. Although not
his most famous work, Maritain s An Essay on Christian Philosophy
provides readers with an in-depth analysis and careful
philosophical approach to the study of theology and, at the time of
original publication, was considered to be the definitive statement
of the Thomistic position. Discover his theses for yourself as
Maritain considers the nature of philosophy, morality, and their
relations to Christianity with clarity and a scholarly attention to
detail. Flannery provides English readers with a glossary of terms
to bring further understanding to Maritain s original words.
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 Dream of Descartes by Francois Mauriac contains articles
appearing in 1920 and 1922, a lecture, and other essays. This book
was written to determine the value and significance of the
Cartesian Reform with regard to metaphysical and theological
wisdom. Descartes was also known for his work in producing the
Cartesian Theory of Fallacies. This can be most easily explored
using the statement: "This statement is a lie." While it is most
commonly referred to as a paradox, the Cartesian Theory of
Fallacies states that at any given time a statement can be both
true and false simultaneously because of its contradictory nature.
The statement is true in its fallacy. Thus, Descartes developed the
Cartesian Theory of Fallacies, which greatly influenced the
thinking of the time. Many would-be philosophers were trying to
develop inexplicable statements of seeming fact, however, this laid
rumors of such a proposition impossible. Many philosophers believe
that when Descartes formulated his Theory of Fallacies, he intended
to be lying, which in and of itself embodies the theory. Titles in
this book are The Deposition of Wisdom, The Cartesian Proofs of
God, and The Cartesian Heritage. Mauriac, Fran ois 1885 1970,
French writer. Mauriac achieved success in 1922 and 1923 with Le
Baiser au l preux and Genitrix (tr. of both in The Family, 1930).
Generally set in or near his native Bordeaux, his novels are imbued
with his profound, though nonconformist, Roman Catholicism. His
characters exist in a tortured universe; nature is evil and man
eternally prone to sin. His major novels are The Desert of Love
(1925, tr. 1929), Th r se (1927, tr. 1928), and Vipers' Tangle
(1932, tr. 1933). Other works include The Frontenacs (1933, tr.
1961) and Woman of the Pharisees (1941, tr. 1946); a life of Racine
(1928) and of Jesus (1936, tr. 1937); and plays, notably Asmod e
(1938, tr. 1939). Also a distinguished essayist, Mauriac became a
columnist for Figaro after World War II. Collections of his
articles and essays include Journal, 1932 39 (1947, partial tr.
Second Thoughts, 1961), Proust's Way (1949, tr. 1950), and Cain,
Where Is Your Brother? (tr. 1962). Mauriac received the 1952 Nobel
Prize in Literature.
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.
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