This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and postmodernity, repentance and self-limitation, and philosophy and politics. These tensions are explored through the works of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Augustine, and Tocqueville, but the contributors engage a wide variety of texts from popular culture, American literature-Flannery O'Connor receives notable attention-and social theory to create a remarkably comprehensive, if far from harmonious, introduction to political philosphy today.
This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and postmodernity, repentance and self-limitation, and philosophy and politics. These tensions are explored through the works of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Augustine, and Tocqueville, but the contributors engage a wide variety of texts from popular culture, American literature-Flannery O'Connor receives notable attention-and social theory to create a remarkably comprehensive, if far from harmonious, introduction to political philosphy today.
Chapter 1 Autonomy and Community in Aristotle Chapter 2 Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History Chapter 3 On Spiritual Crisis, Globalization, and Planetary Rule Chapter 4 Stoics and Christians: Walker Percy and Flannery O'Connor on the Moral Contradictions of Southern Culture Chapter 5 Leo Strauss, America, and the End of History Chapter 6 End of History 2000 Chapter 7 The Ascent from Modernity: Solzhenitsyn on "Repentance and Self-Limitation in the Life of Nations" Chapter 8 Trevanian's Shibumi: The Perfect Postmodern Tale Chapter 9 Aristoteles Revivus: Pierre Manent's Reflections on "The Contemporary Political World" Chapter 10 A Postmodern Augustinian Recovery of Political Judgment Chapter 11 Tocqueville, Girard, and the Mystique of Anti-Modernism Chapter 12 Christianity's Epicurean Temptation: Reflections on Kenneth Craycraft's The American Myth of Religious Freedom Chapter 13 Flannery O'Connor's Teaching on the Nature of Evil in " The Lame Shall Enter First"
Peter Augustine Lawler is Professor Government at Berry College. Dale McConkey is Associate Professor of Sociology at Berry College. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Sociologist, and co-editor of Social Structures, Social Capital, and Personal Freedom (with Peter Augustine Lawler, 2000).
Offers challenging and often brilliant examples of what moral and
political reflection must be today, as the history of human
striving for meaning seems to be finding its end in the
satisfactions of technology.....
*Ralph Hancock, Brigham Young University*
For the authors in this volume—as it was for Tocqueville and
Nietzsche before them—a homogeneously democratic epoch would be one
permeated by narcissistic self-satisfaction and moral degradation.
Anyone troubled by these unintended byproducts of the democratic
age—and hoping to find resources with which to resist them—will
relish the serious and sober essays collected in this volume.
*First Things*
The collection... describe[s] interesting new directions that
liberated and pluralistic scholarship can take.... Individual
essays... resonate deeply with readers' own academic projects....
There are many good reads here.
*American Political Science Review*
With the Applications of Political Theory series, professors Peter
Lawler and Dale McConkey offer a fine assorttment of essays in two
complementary volumes, making a considerable contribution to that
dialogue...Together, they constitute an impressive cross-section of
research and reflection friendly to saving a place for religion in
American politics.
*Perspectives on Political Science*
Lively, thought-provoking essays on the relevance of Christianity
and classical thought to the crisis of modernity and the challenges
of postmodernism. The voices of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas,
Tocqueville, Solzhenitsyn, Manent, O'Connor, Percy, Murray, and
Strauss transcend both secular optimism and pessimism in their
encounter with the American identity and Kojève's "end of
history."
*Ann Hartle, Emory University*
Offers challenging and often brilliant examples of what moral and
political reflection must be today, as the history of human
striving for meaning seems
to be finding its end in the satisfactions of technology.
*Ralph Hancock, Brigham Young University*
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