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Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law

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Graham McAleer’s Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law is the first work to present in an accessible way the thinking of Erich Przywara (1889-1972) for an English-speaking audience. Przywara’s ...
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  • Publication Date: 31 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780268105945
  • Pages: 148
  • Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press

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Graham McAleer’s Erich Przywara and Postmodern Natural Law is the first work to present in an accessible way the thinking of Erich Przywara (1889-1972) for an English-speaking audience. Przywara’s work remains little known to a broad Catholic audience, but it had a major impact on many of the most celebrated theologians of the twentieth century, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Edith Stein, and Karl Barth. Przywara’s ground-breaking text Analogia Entis (The analogy of being) brought theological metaphysics into the modern era. While the concept of "analogy of being" is typically understood in static terms, McAleer explores how Przywara transformed it into something dynamic. McAleer shows the extension of Przywara’s thought into a range of disciplines: from a new theory of natural law to an explanation of how misunderstanding the analogy of being lies at the foundation of the puzzles of modernity and postmodernity. He demonstrates, through Przywara’s conceptual framework, how contemporary moral problems, such as those surrounding robots, Islam and sumptuary laws, Nazism (including fascism and race), embryos, migration, and body modification, among others, are shaped by the failure of Western thought to address metaphysical quandaries. McAleer updates Przywara for a new audience searching for solutions to the failing humanism of the current age. This book will be of interest to intellectuals and scholars in a wide range of disciplines within philosophy or theology, and will appeal especially to those interested in systematic and moral theology.

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Price: $35.00
Pages: 148
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication Date: 31 October 2019
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780268105945
Format: Paperback
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"Another slendid book by G. J. McAleer, in which he tackles, with characteristic panache and ploymorphous erudition, a whole slew of the moral and cultural perplexities that confront Catholics currently in the liberal democracies, expounding and developing a radical account of the doctrine of natural law that shows how we got here and how we might work ourselves out of the mess. Granted, it is a challenging read for 'liberal humanitarians' such as myself, a Thomist who never read Pryzwara, and (worse still!) a student of philosophy at Aberdeen who never heard of Thomas Reid, two of McAleer's heroes. But, even when you resist where the argument is inexorably taking you, you cannot restrain your delight in the thought world that McAleer opens up—a dazzling performance!" —Fergus Kerr, O.P., School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

Graham James McAleer is professor of philosophy at Loyola University Maryland.

Introduction

  1. Robert Kilwardby’s Angelism
  2. Hellfire and the Burning Flesh of the Disembodied
  3. Early Modern Angelism and Schopenhauer’s Vitalism
  4. Vitalism and National Socialism
  5. Agamben on the Ontology of Clothes
  6. Relying on Clothes: Merleau-Ponty’s Flesh
  7. Value Theory and Natural Law
  8. Play and Liturgy Conclusion: Moral Theory: Metaphysics and Liturgy

Bibliography

Index