The common mind
Subtitle: politics, society & Christian humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk
By: André Gushurst-Moore
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tacoma, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781621380115; 9781621380139
Subjects: Christianity and culture; Humanism; Christianity and religious humanism; Christianity in literature; Christianity and politics; European Authors; Religious life; American Authors
Other titles: Politics, society and Christian humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk
Description: This book traces the theme of the sensus communis, inherited from the medievals, through the lives and writings of twelve literary figures in the modern age, ranging from Thomas More and Jonathan Swift to C. S. Lewis and Russell Kirk. It is this quality, argues the author, which, like natural law, serves as the bedrock of orthodoxy, of social and political order, and which, by its presence or absence, determines the nature of every society. The book is an altogether uncommon achievement: a rich, multivalent reading of our present cultural condition through a brilliant procession of literary portraits; and a critical work in the ongoing effort to recover a unity of life, of understanding, of principles--in short, a common mind.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251).
Table of contents: title: Introductory : The common mind and Christian humanism; title: Thomas More and the Christian context of temporal authority; title: Good company : Jonathan Swift versus the Enlightenment; title: "Of man's first disobedience" : Samuel Johnson and the Whigs; title: "The decent drapery of life" : the unity of nature and art in Edmund Burke; title: The integrating imagination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: John Henry Newman and the unity of truth; title: Orestes Brownson on communion and constitution; title: Benjamin Disraeli's one nation; title: G.K. Chesterton and the authority of common sense; title: T.S. Eliot : from fragmentation to unity; title: C.S. Lewis and the nature of man; title: Russell Kirk and adventures in normality; title: Conclusion : Prospects for the common mind and a politics of Christian humanism.