G.K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward

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Templeton Foundation Press, 2006 - Počet stran: 248

In this book, Stephen R. L. Clark, a philosopher with a lifelong "addiction" to science fiction, explores G. K. Chesterton's ideas and arguments in their historical context and evaluates them philosophically. He addresses Chesterton's sense that the way things are is not how they must have been or need be in the future and his willingness to face up to the apparent effects of the nihilism he detected in the science and politics of his day.

Clark offers a detailed study of some of Chesterton's works that have been identified by science fiction writers and critics as seminal influences. He attempts to deal with some of Chesterton's theories that have been found offensive or "positively wicked" by later writers and critics, including his arguments against female suffrage and in praise of war, his medievalist leanings, and his contemptuous rejection of the Darwinian evolutionary theory.

 

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Obsah

The Case against Science Fiction
11
In Defense of Science Fiction
18
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
41
The Man Who Was Thursday
50
The Flying Inn
65
The Distributist Rebellion
73
Nationalists and Jews
85
Thinking Backward
187
Notes
201
Index
241
Autorská práva

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O autorovi (2006)

Stephen R. L. Clark is professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, England. He received his D Phil from Oxford in 1973. Dr. Clark served as chief editor at the Journal of Applied Philosophy for eleven years and is now a member of its editorial board, as well as serving on the boards of Religious Studies and the Cambridge University Press series New Studies in Christian Ethics. Well known for his interest both in religion and science fiction, he has lectured widely in the U.S. and the U.K. He has authored more than sixty scholarly articles, contributed chapters to seventy-five books, edited one book, and written fourteen others, including: The Mysteries of Religion, Civil Peace and Sacred Order, How to Live Forever, Animals and their Moral Standing, and Biology and Christian Ethics. His main work at present is with the ethics and psychology of the philosopher Plotinus.

Bibliografické údaje

NázevG.K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward
AutorStephen R. L. Clark
VydavatelTempleton Foundation Press, 2006
ISBN1599471043, 9781599471044
DélkaPočet stran: 248
  
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