Man and the State. (The Charles R. Walgreen Foundation Lectures) (Phoenix Books, P5)

Maritain, Jacques

ISBN 10: 0226505529 / ISBN 13: 9780226505527

Published by Phoenix Books / University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1951

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219pp. , vi. '14' in number line. Index, pp. 217-219. Lime wraps with title lettering in white superimposed over a black bar across middle front cover, author name lettering in smaller black letters at lower middle front cover; short red bar at lower left front cover with 'P5 $4.45' superimposed in black figures. Spine sunned from lime to gray, lettering still sharp, distinct, eminently readable; p. 145/146 improperly cut during book manufacture (can be trimmed by buyer), thus creased, as if intentionally dog-eared. Apart from these peccadilloes, book is in Fine condition: Tight spine (NO cracks); sharp corners; NO previous owner names; NO remainder mark. Appears UNREAD. Solid copy. The way to read a Philosophical Classic.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Man and the State. (The Charles R. Walgreen Foundation Lectures) (Phoenix Books, P5)
• Publisher: Phoenix Books / University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
• Publication Date: 1951
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226505529
• ISBN 13: 9780226505527
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

A reprint of Maritain's classic reflection on social and political issues.

"Of time-transcending value, this book is probably the most succinct and clearest statement of Thomistic political theory available to the English-language reader. Written during his exile from war-torn Europe, Man and the State is the fruit of Maritain's considerable learning as well as his reflections on his positive American experience and on the failure of regimes he closely encountered on the Continent."-Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America

"The lectures that were the basis for Man and the State were delivered at the University of Chicago at a time when Maritain was still in the first enthusiasm of his participation in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He devotes particular attention to the concept of rights, since, historically, rights theories were fashioned to supplant the natural law theory to which Maritain as a Thomist gives his allegiance. Maritain provides an ingenious and profound theory as to how natural law and natural rights can be complementary. For this reason alone it remains a fundamental contribution to political philosophy, but it is filled with other gems as well. Was Maritain too optimistic in his appraisal of modernity? Or have we unjustly lost the optimism that was his? Man and the State is an invitation to rethink the way we pose the basic questions of political philosophy."-Ralph McInerny, Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame

Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), distinguished French Catholic philosopher and writer, was the author of more than fifty books. A preeminent interpreter of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Maritain was a professor of philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He served as French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948.