Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political
By (author) Calvin O. Schrag Foreword by Lenore Langsdorf Edited by Michael Paradiso-Michau
Publication date:
30 April 2014Length of book:
232 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
228x155mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780739195727
Reflections on the Religious, the Ethical, and the Political presents fourteen essays devoted to the interconnected topics of religion, ethics, and politics, along with an introductory interview with the author regarding his philosophical development over the years. This volume serves two interconnected purposes: as an introduction or reintroduction to Calvin O.Schrag’s intellectual contributions to a critical consideration of these three topics, and as a critical companion and supplement to Schrag’s published work on these topics. The topics of religion, ethics, and politics have served as pivot points throughout Schrag’s career in the academy, which spans half a century.
Calvin O. Schrag has long been a leading representative of continental philosophy in America. This timely and thoughtfully edited collection of essays brings together a number of Schrag’s most notable writings on religion, ethics, and politics. Readers will be delighted to find a large offering of scholarly reflections on some of the most pressing concerns of our ‘post-secular’ age. Of particular interest is the interview with the author conducted by the editor of the present volume in which Schrag reflects back on his long career as a philosopher passionately engaged with many of the major developments in contemporary thought. Readers will find in this book a treasure trove of thought-provoking discussions of the shifting boundaries between the secular and the sacred, the profane and the holy, and the human and the divine.