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Catholic Ideas for a Secular World Ser.: Jean Bethke Elshtain : Politics, Ethics, and Society by Michael Le Chevallier (2018, Hardcover)
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PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-100268103054
ISBN-139780268103057
eBay Product ID (ePID)245240006
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Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameJean Bethke Elshtain : Politics, Ethics, and Society
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSocial, Ethics, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Theory, Political
Publication Year2018
TypeTextbook
AuthorMichael Le Chevallier
Subject AreaReligion, Political Science, Philosophy
SeriesCatholic Ideas for a Secular World Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight25.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2017-055859
Reviews"The collection displays why Elshtain managed to succeed where so many academics fail: she risked being interesting by pursuing lines of thought or threading needles of nuance that sometimes result in other intellectuals' jealousy or in being cast out of their particular movement (as Elshtain was by some feminists for Public Man, Private Woman ). Even for those largely unacquainted with her work, this collection helps us understand what made her such a provocative, relevant, and fascinating public intellectual." -- Modern Theology, Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevalier pay wonderful homage to their teacher Jean Bethke Elshtain, and perform an important service for the rest of us who, from various distances regard her as our teacher... The essays contained in this volume pay tribute both to her scholarship and to her as a person. Perhaps most importantly, they recognize how Elshtain regarded the person as the central category of the study of politics., "Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevalier pay wonderful homage to their teacher Jean Bethke Elshtain, and perform an important service for the rest of us who, from various distances regard her as our teacher... The essays contained in this volume pay tribute both to her scholarship and to her as a person. Perhaps most importantly, they recognize how Elshtain regarded the person as the central category of the study of politics." -- Journal of Church and State, "What a wonderful tribute this collection of essays is to the person and work of Jean Elshtain who, for some forty years, was one of America's most prominent public intellectuals. The essays, of uniformly high quality, are both admiring and critical of Elshtain's work, lucidly expounding and engaging her thought while also making creative contributions of their own to political theory and social analysis. Suffusing the entire collection is the evident love these writers had, and continue to have, for the winsome, engaged, brilliant, and magnetic person that was Jean Elshtain." -- Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University, "A rich collection of essays that helps one understand the importance of Jean Bethke Elshtain's seminal works, and further develops moral and social ideas crucial for our time." --Amitai Etzioni, author of The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society, "Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier's collection is in every way a fitting tribute to Jean Elshtain: essays by thoughtful scholars of a wide range of disciplines and viewpoints, from doctoral students to distinguished professors, covering the full range of her work from feminism to sovereignty to just war. The essays are both stimulating reading in themselves and a compelling invitation to read or reread Elshtain's own writings." -- Nathan Tarcov, Karl J. Weintraub Professor of Social Thought and Political Science and in the College, The University of Chicago, This collection is part analysis of Elshtain's work, part application of her work to new problems, and part critique--but always admiration for her commitment to ethics in the political realm. . . a valuable resource to those studying Elshtain's thinking or the various fields in which her work has made an impact., "Elshtain's legacy lives on and is more vibrant and pertinent than ever . . . [this] collection analyzes [her] body of work from contemporary theoretical and applied perspectives." -- The Review of Politics, "A rich collection of essays that helps one understand the importance of Jean Bethke Elshtain's seminal works, and further develops moral and social ideas crucial for our time." -- Amitai Etzioni, author of The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society, "This book is interdisciplinary, generative, and comprehensive in its aims. It truly establishes the significance of Elshtain's political thought for intersecting fields of politics, political and social ethics, political theology, sexual-gender politics, and social problems. Many of the contributors are a virtual listing of 'Who's Who' in religious, social, and political ethics and political theorists." --Victor Anderson, Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society at the Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, "Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier's collection is in every way a fitting tribute to Jean Elshtain: essays by thoughtful scholars of a wide range of disciplines and viewpoints, from doctoral students to distinguished professors, covering the full range of her work from feminism to sovereignty to just war. The essays are both stimulating reading in themselves and a compelling invitation to read or reread Elshtain's own writings." --Nathan Tarcov, Karl J. Weintraub Professor of Social Thought and Political Science and in the College, The University of Chicago, Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier's collection is in every way a fitting tribute to Jean Elshtain: essays by thoughtful scholars of a wide range of disciplines and viewpoints, from doctoral students to distinguished professors, covering the full range of her work from feminism to sovereignty to just war. The essays are both stimulating reading in themselves and a compelling invitation to read or reread Elshtain's own writings., "Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was a distinguished political philosopher who opposed many dominant trends in her field. As the contributors to this volume point out, she closely related personal life and politics. . . . A valuable work for anyone interested in political theory and a useful companion to Elshtain's own books, such as Sovereignty: God, State, and Self and Just War Against Terror ." -- Library Journal, "This book is interdisciplinary, generative, and comprehensive in its aims. It truly establishes the significance of Elshtain's political thought for intersecting fields of politics, political and social ethics, political theology, sexual-gender politics, and social problems. Many of the contributors are a virtual listing of 'Who's Who' in religious, social, and political ethics and political theorists." -- Victor Anderson, Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society at the Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, This book is interdisciplinary, generative, and comprehensive in its aims. It truly establishes the significance of Elshtain's political thinking for intersecting fields of politics, political and social ethics, political theology, sexual-gender politics, and social problems. Many of the contributors are a virtual listing of 'Who's Who' in religious, social, and political ethics and political theorists., "This collection is part analysis of Elshtain's work, part application of her work to new problems, and part critique--but always admiration for her commitment to ethics in the political realm. . . a valuable resource to those studying Elshtain's thinking or the various fields in which her work has made an impact." -- Reading Religion, "What a wonderful tribute this collection of essays is to the person and work of Jean Elshtain who, for some forty years, was one of America's most prominent public intellectuals. The essays, of uniformly high quality, are both admiring and critical of Elshtain's work, lucidly expounding and engaging her thought while also making creative contributions of their own to political theory and social analysis. Suffusing the entire collection is the evident love these writers had, and continue to have, for the winsome, engaged, brilliant, and magnetic person that was Jean Elshtain." --Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University, "The book virtually stands alone in the literature, offering readers in political science, political and social theory, ethics, religious studies, and theology a window into the scholarship of a major voice at the intersection of politics, religion, and ethics in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries." -- Studies in Christian Ethics, The collection displays why Elshtain managed to succeed where so many academics fail: she risked being interesting by pursuing lines of thought or threading needles of nuance that sometimes result in other intellectuals' jealousy or in being cast out of their particular movement (as Elshtain was by some feminists for Public Man, Private Woman ). Even for those largely unacquainted with her work, this collection helps us understand what made her such a provocative, relevant, and fascinating public intellectual., Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was a distinguished political philosopher who opposed many dominant trends in her field. As the contributors to this volume point out, she closely related personal life and politics. . . . A valuable work for anyone interested in political theory and a useful companion to Elshtain's own books, such as Sovereignty: God, State, and Self and Just War Against Terror ., What a wonderful tribute this collection of essays is to the person and work of Jean Elshtain who, for some forty years, was one of America's most prominent public intellectuals. The essays, of uniformly high quality, are both admiring and critical of Elshtain's work, lucidly expounding and engaging her thought while also making creative contributions of their own to political theory and social analysis. Suffusing the entire collection is the evident love these writers had, and continue to have, for the winsome, engaged, brilliant, and magnetic person that was Jean Elshtain.
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Table Of ContentForeword Introduction: Debra Erickson and Michael Le Chevallier Part 1. The Political Question Introduction: Robin Lovin 1. The Context and Texts of Public Man, Private Woman : Jean Bethke Elshtain in the World of Ideas and Action by Arlene Saxonhouse 2. Becoming Jean Elshtain: Exploring the Intersections of Social Feminism and Civic Life by William Galston 3. Elshtain's "Reflective" Ethics of Feminism and Family: An Appreciation and Critique by Don Browning 4. Striking the Balance: Burke's Blending of Liberty, Tradition, and Reform by Peter Berkowitz 5. Reflections on Reflections: Democracy, Depression, and Disability by Nancy Hirschmann Part 2. Cities of God and Man Introduction: Michael Kessler 6. A Critical Appreciation of Jean Bethke Elshtain's Embodied Augustinian Realism by Nigel Biggar 7. Engaging the Mind of Elshtain on Sovereignty by Gilbert Meilaender 8. Taking Love Seriously: Elshtain's Augustinian Voice and Modern Politics by Eric Gregory 9. Supremacy at Stake: Religion and the Sovereign State by Daniel Philpott 10. Sovereign No More? Selves, States, and God in Our Bewildering Global Environment by Lisa Sowle Cahill Part 3. Nations and Citizens at Peace and War Introduction: Marc LiVecche 11. The Education of a Just War Thinker by John Carlson 12. The Effect of Perspectives of Thinking about Sovereignty: a Dialogue with Jean Bethke Elshtain by James Turner Johnson 13. Two Sovereigns? Violence and the Ambiguities of Jean Bethke Elshtain's Christian Realism by Nicholas Rengger 14. A New, But Still a Just War Against Terror by Chris Brown 15. Just War and Religion: Reflections on the Work of Jean Elshtain by Michael Walzer Part 4. The End(s) of Political Life Introduction: Erik Owens 16. Civil Society and Political Society by Francis Fukuyama 17. Religion and Democracy: Why Each Needs the Other by Carl Gershman 18. Defending the Indefensible Liberal Consensus: The Tragic Moderation of Jean Bethke Elshtain by Patrick Deneen 19. The Limits of Politics and the Inevitability of Ethics by Robin Lovin
SynopsisJean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013) was a noted ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. Her four decades of scholarship defy easy categorization: she wrote both seminal works of theory and occasional pieces for the popular press, and she was variously viewed as radical and conservative, feminist and traditionalist, anti-war and pro-interventionist. Jean Bethke Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society is the first attempt to evaluate Elshtain's entire published body of work and to give shape to a wide-ranging scholarly career, with an eye to her work's ongoing relevance. This collection of essays brings together scholars and public intellectuals from across the spectrum of disciplines in which Elshtain wrote. The volume is organized around four themes, which identify the central concerns that shaped Elshtain's thought: (1) the nature of politics; (2) politics and religion; (3) international relations and just war; and (4) the end(s) of political life. The essays have been chosen not only for the expertise of each contributor as it bears on Elshtain's work but also for their interpretive and analytic scope. This volume introduces readers to the work of a key contemporary thinker, using Elshtain's writing as a lens through which to reflect on central political and scholarly debates of the last few decades. Jean Bethke Elshtain will be of great interest to specialists researching Elshtain and to scholars of multiple disciplines, particularly political theory, international relations, and religion. Contributors: Debra Erickson Sulai, Michael Le Chevallier, Robin W. Lovin, William A. Galston, Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Don Browning, Peter Berkowitz, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Michael Kessler, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Nigel Biggar, Gilbert Meilaender, Eric Gregory, Daniel Philpott, Marc LiVecche, Nicholas Rengger, John D. Carlson, Chris Brown, Michael Walzer, James Turner Johnson, Erik Owens, Francis Fukuyama, Carl Gershman, and Patrick J. Deneen., Jean Bethke Elshtain is the first attempt to evaluate Elshtain's entire published body of work and to give shape to a wide-ranging scholarly career.
LC Classification NumberBJ354.E473J43 2018
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