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Augustine and the Limits of Politics (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World)
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Augustine and the Limits of Politics (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World) Paperback - 2018

by Elshtain, Jean Bethke

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  • Title Augustine and the Limits of Politics (Catholic Ideas for a Secular World)
  • Author Elshtain, Jean Bethke
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN
  • Date 2018-04-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # OTF-S-9780268020019
  • ISBN 9780268020019 / 0268020019
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Christianity and politics, Augustine - Political and social views
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018031026
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.092

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From the rear cover

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.

About the author

Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was one of the nation's most prominent and provocative thinkers on religion, political philosophy, and ethics. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, Political Science, and the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. She was the author of numerous books, including Sovereignty: God, State, and Self.

Patrick J. Deneen holds the David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.