Modern Philosophy - 20th Century, World Politics, Postmodernism, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
In this book, Nicholas Boyle offers ten studies of the implications of the increasingly integrated world economic structure for our sense of political, cultural, and personal identity. He argues for the deep interconnectedness of politics, religion, philosophy, and literature and their shared inseparability from the economic base. In the process, he uses philosophical and literary ideas to establish systematic grounds for optimism about an emerging supra-national order, aiming to restore the possibility of "grand narrative" to our collective past and future. Boyle takes a close look at Germany and Britain, their differences and growing similarity. He discusses, among others, Thatcher, Fukuyama, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Seamus Heaney. Boyle asserts that as the world becomes less divided but more disparate, and its order less draconian but more precarious, choosing the paths most likely to lead to justice and peace will reform our shattered sense of identity.Editorials
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Boyles (German literary and intellectual history, U. of Cambridge) argues for a deep link among politics, religion, philosophy, and literature in an era when the dominant dichotomy is shifting from Christian democracy versus atheist Communist to diversity and pluralism versus global unification. He is generally optimistic about an emerging supra-national order, but wonders about whether we are more than consumers and producers, whether a Christian perspective is viable in such a secular world, and other questions. Four of the ten essays are revised from publication in the English Dominican journal . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1998
Publisher
Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, c1998.
Pages
348
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780268010331