: James Matthew Wilson
: Vision of the Soul Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition
: The Catholic University of America Press
: 9780813229294
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: CHF 31.90
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: Sonstiges
: English
'For those for whom conservatism means something more than anti-liberalism?.?.?. who wish to dive deep into the conservative tradition in search of pearls' (The American Conservative). ? Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead-an age that asserts mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew Wilson seeks to conserve the great insights of the western tradition by giving us a new account of them responsive to modern discontents. The western- or Christian Platonist-tradition, he argues, tells us that man is an intellectual animal, born to pursue the good, to know the true, and to contemplate all things in beauty. ? By turns a study in fundamental ontology, aesthetics, and political philosophy, Wilson's book invites its readers to a renewal of the West's intellectual tradition. ? 'Conservatism needs a new prophet. James Matthew Wilson is the man for the job, and The Vision of the Soul is his calling card?.?.?. A new classic. For it we give thanks to God, and to Plato.' -Covenant ? 'James Wilson's important book returns to a conservatism in the tradition of Burke, Eliot, and Russell Kirk.?.?.?. He wants us to focus on beauty and its place in Western culture. The book is a strong defense of that culture, but not an unthinking one.' -Crisis Magazine ? 'A stirring and timely account and defense of the West's traditional way of understanding the universe and our place in it.' -Matthew M.?Robare, The Kirk Center