Filter By
Books (199)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Catholicism and Democracy: An Essay in the History of Political Thought by Emile Perreau-Saussine
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $42.34How the Catholic Church redefined its relationship to the state in the wake of the French RevolutionCatholicism and Democracy is a history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to... -
Catholicism and Democracy: An Essay in the History of Political Thought by Emile Perreau-Saussine 9780691153940
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $60.04Catholicism and Democracy is a history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. Emile Perreau-Saussine investigates the church's response to liberal democracy, a... -
The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present by Esther Benbassa 9780691090146
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.31In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa tells the intriguing tale of the social, economic, and cultural... -
Sidney Hook by Paul Kurtz 9780879751913
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.38Sidney Hook is considered by many to be America's most influential philosopher. An earlier defender of Marxism, he became its most persistent critic, especially of its totalitarian and revolutionary... -
Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory by John P. Hittinger 9780739104125
Booksplease Price: $57.16Twentieth-century French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon pioneered new approaches to understanding and defending political democracy in the wake of two world wars. Rather than break... -
Frontiers in Semiotics by John Deely
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Semiotics is rapidly establishing itself as one of the most fruitful and exciting fields of intellectual inquiry. Literary scholars, philosophers, social scientists, and students of linguistics and... -
Thomistic Tradition and Human Rights by Carlos Isler Soto 9783662680674
RRP: $90.29Booksplease Price: $85.09The present book verses on the current discussion, between authors writing within the Thomistic tradition, on the issue of human rights, and pretends to adjudicate that discussion. The positions of... -
Maritain, Religion, and Education: A Theocentric Humanism Approach by Luz M. Ibarra 9781433121395
RRP: $88.24Booksplease Price: $78.56Maritain, Religion, and Education: A Theocentric Humanism Approach offers a comprehensive study of Jacques Maritain's philosophy of education as applied to the specific field of religious education... -
Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven by Jean-Luc Barre 9780268203498
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.05This biography of French philosopher Jacques Maritain and his wife Raissa offers a fascinating story of perhaps the most influential French theologian of the twentieth century. This award-winning... -
The End of Work: Theological Critiques of Capitalism by John Hughes 9781405158923
RRP: $121.20Booksplease Price: $106.95Surveys twentieth century theologies of work, contrasting differing approaches to consider the "problem of labor" from a theological perspective. * Aimed at theologians concerned with how... -
UNESCO and World Politics: Engaging In International Relations by James Patrick Sewell 9780691617824
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $76.34That intergovernmental organizations do not operate effectively has long been apparent. Why they fail to do so has puzzled observers, as has the lack of a satisfying explanation of how these... -
St. Thomas Aquinas by Ralph McInerny 9780268017071
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.96St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas's continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas, McInerny... -
Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins by Justin N. Bonanno 9783031370229
Booksplease Price: $142.88In this book, Justin N. Bonanno builds off of the recent philosophical work on Walker Percy's writings. While it is valuable to appreciate Percy as a novelist, Bonanno approaches Percy from the... -
Love and Friendship: Maritain and the Tradition by Montague Brown 9780982711934
Booksplease Price: $31.55Love and friendship are at the heart of human and divine life. Without reference to them, it is impossible to explain the human being. Yet these terms are irreducibly ambiguous, with multiple... -
Einstein and Aquinas: A Rapprochement: A Rapprochement by J. F. Kiley 9789024700813
Booksplease Price: $116.82Now how would things be intelligible if they did not proceed from an intelligence? In the last analy sis a Primal Intelligence must exist, which is itself Intellection and Intelligibility in pure... -
Sacred Monster Of Thomism - Life & Legacy Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Richard O.p. Peddicord 9781587317644
Booksplease Price: $22.48This new paperbound edition of The Sacred Monster of Thomism (the epithet comes from Francois Mauriac) is the first full-length study of the life and thought of the most influential Dominican... -
The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Fifty Years Elizabeth Cropper 9780300099614
Booksplease Price: $34.24The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of... -
Jacques And Raissa Maritain: Beggars For Heaven by Jean-Luc Barre 9780268021832
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $110.54This biography of French philosopher Jacques Maritain and his wife Raissa offers a fascinating story of perhaps the most influential French theologian of the twentieth century. This award-winning... -
Foresight and Knowledge by Yves R. Simon 9780823216222
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.97For Yves R. Simon, philosophy has an affinity to science, not in the sense that philosophy is a mere metascience, a commentary on the sciences, but rather because it shares the same aim as science:... -
Morality in Evolution: The Moral Philosophy of Henri Bergson by Idella J. Gallagher 9789401700344
Booksplease Price: $59.70Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion is not a book to leave one indifferent. Those who are persuaded by its argument or inspired by its message are prone to manifest the same enthusiasm as... -
Between Science and Religion: The Engagement of Catholic Intellectuals with Science and Technology in the Twentieth Century by Phillip M. Thompson 9780739130803
Booksplease Price: $145.03In exploring the role of Catholic intellectuals in engaging science and technology in the twentieth century, this book initially provides a background context for this evolution by examining the... -
Christianity and Liberal Society by Robert Song 9780198269335
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $58.99Liberalism forms the dominant political ideology of the modern world, but despite its pervasive influence, this is the first book-length treatment of liberal political thought from a Christian... -
Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with Rene Girard by Wolfgang Palaver
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.31Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. Rene Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred and used the Durkheimian term 'sacred' as its correlate in his study... -
From Unity to Pluralism: The Internal Evolution of Thomism by Gerald A. McCool 9780823212422
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.97Through an in-depth study of four key figures - Pierre Rousselot, Joseph Marechal, Jacques Maritain, and Etienne Gilson - From Unity to Pluralism traces the evolution of Thomism in the first half of... -
A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas: A Handbook for Peeping Thomists by Ralph McInerny
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.96Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts formed on the basis of our sense experience. In this informally discursive... -
A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas: A Handbook for Peeping Thomists by Ralph McInerny 9780268009762
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $73.98Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts formed on the basis of our sense experience. In this informally discursive... -
Popular Politics: Renewing Democracy for a Sustainable World by George W. Shepherd, Jr. 9780275960070
Booksplease Price: $98.70George Shepherd provides a popular democratic theory and strategy for democratic transition in the world. He demonstrates how popular democratic ideas have created universal human rights uprisings... -
The Question of Christian Ethics by Ralph McInerny 9780813207711
Booksplease Price: $18.78In the early 1930s, Emile Brehier inaugurated a dispute regarding whether or not true philosophy could have existed during the ages of faith, the assumption being that real philosophers are untouched... -
The Vision of Gabriel Marcel: Epistemology, Human Person, the Transcendent by Brendan Sweetman 9789042023949
Booksplease Price: $85.86This book illustrates the profound implications of Gabriel Marcel's unique existentialist approach to epistemology not only for traditional themes in his work concerning ethics and the transcendent,... -
Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio by Francis Fergusson
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44The individual insights employed in this reading of the Purgatorio are those of a twentieth-century mind, as are the author's references: T. S. Eliot, Henry James, I.A. Richards, Jacques Maritain,... -
Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism Ana Siljak 9781501778162
RRP: $59.34Booksplease Price: $49.34Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism is a multifaceted account of the engagement between religion and the secular in Russia's Christian, Jewish, and atheist... -
A Theology of Creation: Ecology, Art, and Laudato Si' Thomas S. Hibbs 9780268205638
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.29This book provides the first sustained philosophical treatment of Pope Francis's Laudato Si' and articulates a theology of creation to recover our place within the cosmos.In the encyclical Laudato... -
Surnaturel: A Controversy at the Heart of Twentieth-Century Thomistic Thought by Serge-Thomas Bonino 9781932589528
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $30.33In the first section, Etienne Fouilloux describes the arc of Henri de Lubac's career up to the publication of his Surnaturel; Georges Chantraine, S.J., describes de Lubac's Surnaturel; Henry... -
A Theology of Creation: Ecology, Art, and Laudato Si' by Thomas S. Hibbs 9780268205621
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $36.18This book provides the first sustained philosophical treatment of Pope Francis's Laudato Si' and articulates a theology of creation to recover our place within the cosmos. In the encyclical Laudato... -
Interpretations: Reading the Present in Light of the Past by Jude P. Dougherty 9780813229898
Booksplease Price: $24.82Interpretations is a collection of essays produced by the distinguished philosopher Jude Dougherty over the past decade, written to inform or to provide commentary on contemporary issues. In probing... -
Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later: Situating Deschooling Society in His Intellectual and Personal Journey by Rosa Bruno-Jofre
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $41.38In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state. On the occasion of the... -
Dynamic Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness and Beauty from a Thomistic Perspective by Alice M. Ramos 9780813219653
Booksplease Price: $79.67Addressing contemporary interest in the relationship between metaphysics and ethics, as well as the significance of beauty for ethics, Alice Ramos presents an accessible study of the transcendentals... -
The Case for Modern Liberalism by Charles Frankel
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Originally published in 1955 as The Case for Modern Man, this book challenges the reader to believe in the essence of the modern temperament: the belief in the human mastery of destiny. It remains a... -
Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other Provocations by Samuel Hazo 9780268030940
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15For over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and translating them into songs at once familiar and... -
In Search of Harmony: Metaphysics and Politics by James G. Hanink 9780997220513
Booksplease Price: $43.60Two of Jacques Maritain's enduring classics are Existence and the Existent and The Person and the Common Good. In the first he explores the key themes of his constructive Thomism while engaging broad...