The Wisdom of Youth:
Essays Inspired by the Early Work of Jacques and Raissa Maritain
Edited by Travis Dumsday
Book Overview
Both Jacques and Raïssa Maritain produced large and diverse bodies of writing, and their creative lives spanned decades and encompassed the most turbulent periods of the twentieth century. Scholarly engagement with their work continues to reap new insights, and that includes engagement with the writings produced in the earlier portions of their respective careers. Those earlier portions were themselves remarkably productive, and issued not only in important writings but also in profoundly influential professional and personal relationships nurtured and developed with a truly diverse array of scholars, clergy, and artists, including such figures as Henri Bergson, Leon Bloy, Ernest Psichari, and Georges Rouault. This new anthology of essays manages both to interact with the biographies and writings of the Maritains themselves (and to a degree their close early associates) and also to contribute to novel Thomistic reflection on themes from their early careers, among them war, suffering, politics, art, intuition, and foundational issues in moral theology. The essays are historically informed yet address perennial issues of vital significance for the life of the Church and the broader culture.
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Contents
Travis Dumsday, “Introduction”
Florian Michel, “Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Reptutation For Holiness and Spiritual Fruitfulness”
Prudence Allen, “A Life Shared: The Complementarity of Jacques and Raissa Maritain”
Brenna Moore, “Out of The Shadows: Raissa Maritain on Poetry and Making Violence Visible”
E. Jane Doering, “Simone Weil: Love of God, Affliction, and a New Saintliness”
Michael D. Torre, “The Annex to Maritain’s 1914 Lectures on The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: The Role of Germany in Modern Philosophy”
Matthew S. Pugh, “Maritain Critical Realism, And The Intuition Of Being”
John F. Wippel, “Maritain and Aquinas on Our Discovery of Being”
Jason West, “Maritain And Dewan on The Intuition of Being and the Birth of Metaphysics”
Doug Flippen, “The Non-Abstractive and Non-Conceptual Character of Poetic Intuition on Maritain”
Mark Moes, “Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Theology in Plato S Theaetetus 151d-187e and in Maritain’s Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism”
Heather M. Erb, “Spring of Abundant Life in the Philosophical and Theological Orders: Maritain, Bergson, and Aquinas”
Bernadette E. O Connor, “Maritain S Aufhenbung Of Bergsonian Intuition”
John N. Deely, “Gilson, Poinsot, Martain, and the Future of Thomism”
James M. Jacobs, “Christian Philosophy: Reconciling the Temporal and the Eternal”
James V. Schall, “Why are There Minds in the Universe?”
Joshua Schulz, “Scale, Anonymity, and Political Akrasia in Aristotle’s Politics 7.4”
Heidi M. Giebel And Benjamin I. Huff, “Justice, Benevolence, and Friendship: A Confucian Revision to Thomistic Ethics?”
Danial Shields, “St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas, and Eudaimonism”