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Much has been written about the great personalist philosophers of
the 20th century - including Jacques Maritain and Emmanuel
Mournier, Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas, Dietrich von
Hildebrand and Edith Stein, Max Scheler and Karol Wojtyla (later
Pope John Paul II) - but few books cover the personalist movement
as a whole. An Introduction to Personalism fills that gap. Juan
Manuel Burgos shows the reader how personalist philosophy was born
in response to the tragedies of two World Wars, the Great
Depression, and the totalitarian regimes of the 1930s. Through a
revitalization of the concept of the person, an array of thinkers
developed a philosophy both rooted in the best of the intellectual
tradition and capable of dialoguing with contemporary concerns.
Burgos then delves into the potent ideas of more than twenty
thinkers who have contributed to the growth of personalism,
including Romano Guardini, Gabriel Marcel, Xavier Zubiri, and
Michael Polanyi. Burgos's encyclopedic knowledge of the movement
allows for a concise and well-rounded perspective on each of the
personalists studied. An Introduction to Personalism concludes with
a synthesis of personalist thought, bringing together the brightest
insights of each personalist philosopher into an organic whole.
Burgos argues that personalism is not an eclectic hodge-podge, but
a full-fledged school of philosophy, and gives a dynamic and
rigorous exposition of the key features of the personalist
position. Our times are marked by numerous and often contradictory
ideas about the human person. An Introduction to Personalism
presents an engaging anthropological vision capable of taking the
lead in the debate about the meaning of human existence and of
winning hearts and minds for the cause of the dignity of every
person in the 21st century and beyond.
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