Book Overview

The spirit and animation of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain is celebrated in this collection of essays. It recognizes the legacy of Maritain's vision, i.e., the engagement of the ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas with the 20th century.

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Contents

• Title Page

• Table of Contents

• Editor's Preface

1. Judith Suther, “Poetry, Poetic, and the Maritains”

2. Bernard Doering, Loneliness and the Existent: The Dark Nights of Raissa Maritain and Pierre Reverdy”

3. William Bush, “Raissa, Jacques and the Abyss of Christian Orthodoxy”

4. John Hellman, “Maritain and the Rise of Fascism”

5. Pierre L'Abbé, “Maritain and Péguy: A Reassessment”

6. Thomas De Koninck, “Réflexions sur l'intelligence”

7. John P. Hittinger, “The Intuition of Being: Metaphysics or Poetry”

8. John F. X. Knasas, “How Thomistic is the Intuition of Being?”

9. Bertrand Rioux, “L'intuition de l'ȇtre chez Maritain”

10. Peter Redpath, “Bergsonian Recollections in Maritain”

11. Michel Legault, “De l'existence et de l'éducation”

12. Ralph Nelson, “Voluntarism in Ethics”

13. Charles P. O'Donnell, “The Christian Existentialist Political Philosophy of Maritain”

14. John W. Cooper, “Natural Law and Economic Humanism”

15. Joseph J. Califano, “Modernization and Human Values”

16. John G. Trapani, Jr., “Foundations of Maritain's Notion of the Artist's ‘Self’”

17. Roger Duncan, “Freedom and the unconscious”

18. John C. Cahalan, “Making something Out of Nihilation”

19. Michael Torre, “The Sin of Man and the Love of God”

20. Vukan Kuic, “Existential Realism and Freedom of Choice”

21. Desmond FitzGerald, “Without Me You Can Do Nothing”

22. David Higgins, “Evil in Maritain and Lonergan: the Emerging Possibility of a Synthesis”

23. Laura Westra, “Freedom, Existence and Existentialism”

24. Deal W. Hudson, “Can Happiness Be Saved?”

25. Raymond Dennehy, “The Contemporaneity of Maritain's Existence and the Existent”

26. Jean-Louis Allard, “Le témoignage intellectuellement manifesté”