From Twilight to Dawn:
The Cultural Vision of Jacques Maritain
Edited by Peter Redpath
Book Overview
Over 50 years ago, Jacques Maritain, described by some as one of the foremost intellectuals of the 20th century, addressed the issue of the roots of the decline of Western culture. Confronted by the moral monstrosity of Nazi Germany and the weakness of vision in Western democracies, Maritain assessed the problem to be based upon a distorted and disintegrated understanding of human nature. In his work, The Twilight of Civilization, he argued for a reformation in Western education which would incorporate principles necessary for the survival and flourishing of Western democracies.
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Contents
Judith D. Suther, “Dogmatism and Belief in French Cultural Life in the 1930”
John M. Dunaway, “Exiles and Fugitives: The Maritain-Tate-Gordon Letters”
Bernard Doering, “The Philosophy of Work and the Future of Civilization: Maritain, Weil and Simon”
Charles P. O'Donnell, “Jacques Maritain and the Future of Democratic Authority”
William Bush, “Bernanosian Barbs and Maritain's Marigny Lecture”
John Hellman, “World War II and the anti-Democratic Impulse in Catholicism”
D. T. Asselin, “Foundationalism and Foundation in Strauss and Maritain”
Robert E. Lauder, “Creative Intuition in American Film: Maritain at the Movies”
Joseph J. Califano, “Human Suffering and Our Post-Civilized Cultural Mind: A Maritainian Analysis”
Peter A. Redpath, “Poetic Revenge and Modern Totalitarianism”
Curtis L. Hancock, “A Return to the Crossroads: A Maritainian View of the New Educational Reformers”
Donald A. Gallagher, “The Philosophy of Culture in Jacques Maritain”
Ralph McInerny, “Reflections on Maritain's Le Crépuscule de la Civilisation”