Augustine and the Limits of Politics

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

Book Overview

Now with a new foreword by Patrick J. Deneen.

Jean Bethke Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and presents an Augustine who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic virtue. The result is a controversial book about one of the world's greatest and most complex thinkers whose thought continues to haunt all of Western political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268020019
• ISBN13: 9780268020019
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

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For a serious appraisal, see the review by Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Chair at Harvard Law School, at http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9611/reviews/glendon.html