Product Description: One of the twentieth century's leading Catholic philosophers, Jacques Maritain uniquely wove together religious belief with the various cultural, intellectual, and political concerns of his time. Toward the end of his life, the Vatican II document Gaudium et Spes (Joy and Hope): The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (1965) appeared and provided a blueprint for a new engagement between the Church and modernity...read more

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Product Description: Millennium Dawn: The Philosophy of Planetary Crisis and Human Liberation directly addresses the multiple global crises of today's world - from war, to terrorism, to global poverty, and world-wide environmental destruction - with a comprehensive examination of our human potential for transformation and liberation...read more

Product Description: This collection of Habermas's recent essays on philosophical topics continues the analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. In a short introductory essay, he outlines the sources of twentieth-century philosophizing, its major themes, and the range of current debates...read more