Politics and the order of love: an Augustinian ethic of democratic citizenship
Introduction: Augustine and modern liberalism -- Beyond public reason: love, sin, and Augustinian civic virtue -- From vice to virtue: the development of Augustinian liberalism -- A liberal ethic of care: feminist political theory and Christian social ethics -- Love as political vice: Hannah Arendt&...
Summary: | Introduction: Augustine and modern liberalism -- Beyond public reason: love, sin, and Augustinian civic virtue -- From vice to virtue: the development of Augustinian liberalism -- A liberal ethic of care: feminist political theory and Christian social ethics -- Love as political vice: Hannah Arendt's Augustine -- Love as political virtue: "stoics" and the problem of passion -- Love as political virtue: "Platonists" and the problem of God -- Conclusion: remembering Augustine: the exhausted politics of pessimism, skepticism, and nostalgia |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-405) and index Rezension (Review): Augustinian Studies 42 (2011) 106-112 (R.P. Kennedy) |
ISBN: | 0226307514 |