Jacques Maritain: 11 books

Cet ouvrage propose la première édition intégrale des lettres retrouvées à ce jour entre les philosophes Jacques Maritain et Emmanuel Mounier. Cette correspondance enrichit largement, de 133 à plus de 200 lettres, la première édition partielle de 1973, qui n'était qu'une sélection de lettres...

Scholasticism and Politics, first published in 1940, is a collection of nine lectures Maritain delivered at the University of Chicago in 1938. Maritain championed the cause of what he called personalist democracy—a regime committed to popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, limited government, and...

Jacques Maritain's An Introduction to Philosophy was first published in 1931. Since then, this book has stood the test of time as a clear guide to what philosophy is and how to philosophize. Inspired by the Thomistic Revival called for by Leo XIII, Maritain relies heavily on Aristotle and St. Thomas...

  A cura di Pietro Viotto, Edoardo Zin e Samuele Pinna   Tra le diverse corrispondenze dei Maritain quella con don Giovanni Stecco (1958-1973) è molto significativa perché, oltre a far scoprire l'apprezzamento del pensiero di Jacques in Italia, mostra alcuni suoi tratti inediti frutto delle reciproche...

Originally titled Frontières de la Poésie (1935), this book by Jacques Maritain, whose philosophical writings read as interestingly as a novel, will be welcomed by all who are seeking a better understanding of the art of our time. The book delves into Maritain’s thoughts on the nature and subjectivity...

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry encompasses the six lectures Jacques Maritain delivered as the inaugural lecturer in the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Maritain focuses his vision on aesthetics, beauty, and the acts of inspiration and creation as they pertain to music, painting, and...

Un fascio di lettere scritte tra l’aprile 1958 e il giugno 1973 documenta l’amicizia discreta ma intensa che si intrecciò tra don Giovanni Stecco, insegnante del seminario di Vicenza, e i Maritain, Raissa prima (due sole lettere), poi Jacques. Fu una piccola «grande» amicizia, accesa da un...

The meaning of poetry and the sociological and political significance of art are dealt with in these letters.

Presenting with moving insight the relations between man, as a person and as an individual, and the society of which he is a part, Maritain's treatment of a lasting topic speaks to this generation as well as those to come. Maritain employs the personalism rooted in Aquinas's doctrine to distinguish...

In this contemporary classic, one of the great Catholic philosophers illuminates the methods by which humanity comes to know their God.

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.