The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood - Couverture rigide

Altieri, Christopher R

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498225519 ISBN 13 : 9781498225519

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

In The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood, Chris Altieri contends that the forma mentis of the founders of the political society often viewed--by its members and by those external to it--as the non plus ultra of modernity, i.e., the United States of America, is really steeped in the more ancient tradition of thinking that began in Athens and continued through the Christian centuries. Engaging the twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Stanley Cavell--in critical conversation with the founding fathers--the author shows that a broad conversation regarding the constitution of society is constitutively present in the public discourse of the people that began to recognize itself during the imperial crisis of the late eighteenth-century British America; that the participants in that conversation have at least an inchoate awareness of society as at once cosmic and anthropological; and that that political society is therefore an apt field of study in and for the general science of order.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher R. Altieri is a philosopher living in Rome, Italy, with his wife, Ester, and two children. To keep the lights on, he works as a journalist and has taught comparative religion at the crossroads of political theology and cultural anthropology in the IES Abroad Rome program. He defended his PhD dissertation "The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood" in 2010 at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498225519
• ISBN 13: 9781498225519
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 236
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• Personne responsable: non disponible