Augustine and the Limits of Politics (FRANK COVEY LOYOLA L)
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Publication
1998-02-28 - University of Notre Dame Press
Language
English
Word Count
36,000 words, Guess
Page Count
144 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveaugustinelimitso0000elsh_j7q2
- ISBN-100268020019
- ISBN-139780268020019
- Goodreads397410
- LibraryThing8974
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- OCLC Control Number39225893
- Better World Books9780268020019
- Open LibraryOL9655541M
Classifications
- LCCBR1720.A9 E57 1998
- LCCBR1720.A9E57 2018
Description
What is our business "within this common mortal life?" Augustine asks and bids us to ask ourselves. What can Augustine possibly have to say about the conditions that characterize our contemporary society and appear to put democracy in crisis? Who is Augustine for us now and what do his words have to do with political theory? These are the underlying questions that animate Jean Bethke Elshtain's fascinating engagement with the thought and work of Augustine, the ancient thinker who gave no political theory per se and refused to offer up a positive utopia. In exploring the questions, Why Augustine? Why now? Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and presents an Augustine who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic virtue. The result is a controversial book about one of the world's greatest and more complex thinkers, one whose thought continues to haunt all of Western political philosophy.
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