Who Are We Now? Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney |
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Author:
| Boyle, Nicholas |
ISBN: | 978-0-268-01958-7 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $35.00USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionNicholas 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.