So What's New about Scholasticism? : How Neo-Thomism Helped Shape the Twentieth Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Into Neo-Thomism: Reading the Fabric of an Intellectual Movement -- Part I .Shaping A New Society -- The Thomist Debate over Inequality and Property Rights in Depression-Era Europe -- Religion, human rights and democracy in post-1940 France in theory and practice: from Maritain's Thomism to Vignaux's secular realism -- Epistemological Tracks: On Religion, Words, and Buildings in 1950's Belgium -- When Personalism Met Planning: Jacques Maritain and a British Christian Intellectual Circle, 1937-1949 -- Part II. Encountering Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Aesthetics -- Neo-Scholasticism, Phenomenology, and the Problem of Conversion -- A Great Deal of Controversy? A Case Study of Dondeyne, Grégoire, and Moeller Integrating Phenomenology and Existentialism in Louvain Neo-Thomism -- Gilson's Poietics -- Part III. Reconciling Science and Religion -- Psychology from a Neo-Thomist Perspective. The Louvain-Madrid Connection -- Science contra Science. The Battle for Legitimate Knowledge in the Spanish Catholic Journals in the Early Twentieth Century -- Part IV. Mediating Tradition -- The Analogy of Marshall McLuhan -- Vetera Novis Augere: Neo-Scholastic Philosophers and Their Concepts of Tradition -- Thomas Aquinas or John Henry Newman? The Intellectual Itinerary of Johannes Willebrands -- About the Authors -- Index of Persons.