This volume of essays explores the bases and significant aspects of the thought of contemporary French philosopher, historian of ideas, and novelist Chantal Delsol. A member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, she is well known in France as a political analyst and cultural diagnostician. This collection is the first book-length treatment of her thought available in English, bringing together studies that analyze her work. In between, essays present her remarkable portrait of human beings increasingly characteristic of Western societies, as well as her defense of the human person rightly understood. An exposition of the virtues of her conception of the family, as well as her analysis of contemporary “matriarchy,” complements those treatments. The authors highlight her unique mode of cultural analysis, together with her stout defense of genuine political life. The volume also includes translations of two chapters of her fundamental work of philosophical anthropology, Qu’est-ce que l’homme?, appearing here for the first time in English. A thoughtful examination of Delsol’s work, this book provides new resources to those studying this French philosopher and author.
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Editor’s Introduction Part I Introduction and Conclusion from Qu’est-ce que l’homme? Cours familier d’anthopologie (What is Man? A Popular Course of Anthropology) Part II: Responses and Elaborations by Chantal Delsol Chapter 1: Between the Human Condition and Contemporary Societies: Chantal Delsol’s Exemplary Mode of Being-in-the-World by Paul Seaton Chapter 2: Delsol on Human Rights and Personal Dignity by Peter Lawler Chapter 3: The Charms of Indeterminateness: Chantal Delsol on a Democratic and “Late Modern” Propensity by Carl Eric Scott Chapter 4: Roles, Functions, and Subsidiarity: Delsol and the Politics of Contemporary Family by Lauren K. Hall Author Information
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A splendid introduction to the thought of Chantal Delsol, one of the most distinctive and independent thinkers in France today. This volume brings to light her analysis of the human condition in all its drama and nuance. Hall and Seaton have arranged a good marriage, combining a sample of Delsol's writings with incisive commentaries on some of the main themes of her work. Chapeau bas!
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ISBN
9780739167687
Publisert
2011-12-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Vekt
354 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
130

Biographical note

Paul Seaton is associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, MD. Lauren K. Hall is assistant professor of political science at Rochester Institute of Technology.