Flannery O'Connor's fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which O'Connor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why O'Connor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.
Flannery O'Connor's fiction continues to haunt American readers, in part because of its uncanny ability to remind us who we are and what we need. This book reveals the extent to which O'Connor was a serious reader of the history of political philosophy and why O'Connor feared that the habit to govern by tenderness would lead to terror.
Jerome C. Foss is associate professor of politics at Saint Vincent College.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Mystery, Manners, and Regimes 2. The Ancient View of Politics 3. The Intelligent Holiness of the Medieval Mind 4. The First Modern Man: The Master of Things 5. The Second Modern Man: Caught in a Maze of Guilt 6. The Third Modern Man: Feeling About for the Lost God 7. Returning to the Source of Tenderness 8. Concluding Reflection: Motes and Rawls in America
1. Mystery, Manners, and Regimes 2. The Ancient View of Politics 3. The Intelligent Holiness of the Medieval Mind 4. The First Modern Man: The Master of Things 5. The Second Modern Man: Caught in a Maze of Guilt 6. The Third Modern Man: Feeling About for the Lost God 7. Returning to the Source of Tenderness 8. Concluding Reflection: Motes and Rawls in America
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