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The essays in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The
Just University discuss diverse ways that Paul Ricoeur's work
provides hopeful insight and necessary provocation that should
inform the task and mission of the modern university in the
changing landscape of Higher Education. This volume gathers
interdisciplinary scholars seeking to reestablish the place of
justice as the central function of higher education in the 21st
century. The contributors represent diverse backgrounds, including
teachers, scholars, and administrators from R1 institutions,
seminary and divinity schools as well as undergraduate teaching
colleges. This collection, edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Jeffrey
F. Keuss, offers critical and practical visions for the renewal of
higher education. The first part of the book provides an internal
examination of the university system and details how Ricoeur's
thinking assists on pragmatics from syllabus design to final exams
to daily teaching. The second portion of the book examines the Just
University's role as a social institution within the broader
cultural world and looks at how Ricoeur's description of values
informs how the university works relative to religious belief,
prisons, and rural poverty.
Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was a noted ethicist, political
philosopher, and public intellectual. Her four decades of
scholarship defy easy categorization: she wrote both seminal works
of theory and occasional pieces for the popular press, and she was
variously viewed as radical and conservative, feminist and
traditionalist, anti-war and pro-interventionist. Jean Bethke
Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society is the first attempt to
evaluate Elshtain's entire published body of work and to give shape
to a wide-ranging scholarly career, with an eye to her work's
ongoing relevance. This collection of essays brings together
scholars and public intellectuals from across the spectrum of
disciplines in which Elshtain wrote. The volume is organized around
four themes, which identify the central concerns that shaped
Elshtain's thought: (1) the nature of politics; (2) politics and
religion; (3) international relations and just war; and (4) the
end(s) of political life. The essays have been chosen not only for
the expertise of each contributor as it bears on Elshtain's work
but also for their interpretive and analytic scope. This volume
introduces readers to the work of a key contemporary thinker, using
Elshtain's writing as a lens through which to reflect on central
political and scholarly debates of the last few decades. Jean
Bethke Elshtain will be of great interest to specialists
researching Elshtain and to scholars of multiple disciplines,
particularly political theory, international relations, and
religion. Contributors: Debra Erickson Sulai, Michael Le
Chevallier, Robin W. Lovin, William A. Galston, Arlene W.
Saxonhouse, Don Browning, Peter Berkowitz, Nancy J. Hirschmann,
Michael Kessler, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Nigel Biggar, Gilbert
Meilaender, Eric Gregory, Daniel Philpott, Marc LiVecche, Nicholas
Rengger, John D. Carlson, Chris Brown, Michael Walzer, James Turner
Johnson, Erik Owens, Francis Fukuyama, Carl Gershman, and Patrick
J. Deneen.
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