Jacques Maritain: The Man and His Metaphysics"
John F. X. Knasas, Editor
© Copyright 1988 by the American Maritain Association
American Maritain Association: Proceedings of the 1987 Annual
Meeting held on October 29 - November 1, 1987 in Montreal, Canada,
sponsored by the Canadian Maritain Association.
Title Page
Table of Contents
Editor's Preface
Part One: Jacques and Raissa
Judith Suther
Poetry, Poetic, and the
Maritains
Bernard Doering
Loneliness and the Existent:
The Dark Nights of Raissa Maritain and Pierre Reverdy
William Bush
Raissa, Jacques and the
Abyss of Christian Orthodoxy
John Hellman
Maritain and the Rise of
Fascism
Pierre L'Abbé
Maritain and Péguy: A
Reassessment
Part Two: Existence and the Existent
A. Introduction
Thomas
De Koninck
Réflexions sur l'intelligence
B. Being
John P. Hittinger
The Intuition of Being:
Metaphysics or Poetry
John F. X. Knasas
How Thomistic is the
Intuition of Being?
Bertrand Rioux
L'intuition de l'ȇtre chez
Maritain
Peter Redpath
Bergsonian Recollections in
Maritain
C. Action
Michel Legault
De l'existence et de
l'éducation
Ralph Nelson
Voluntarism in Ethics
Charles P. O'Donnell
The Christian Existentialist
Political Philosophy of Maritain
John W. Cooper
Natural Law and Economic
Humanism
Joseph J. Califano
Modernization and Human
Values
D. The Existent
John G. Trapani,
Jr.
Foundations of Maritain's
Notion of the Artist's "Self"
Roger Duncan
Freedom and the unconscious
E. The Free Existent and the Free Eternal Purposes
John C. Cahalan
Making something Out of
Nihilation
Michael Torre
The Sin of Man and the Love
of God
Vukan Kuic
Existential Realism and
Freedom of Choice
Desmond FitzGerald
Without Me You Can Do
Nothing
David Higgins
Evil in Maritain and
Lonergan: the Emerging Possibility of a Synthesis
Laura Westra
Freedom, Existence and
Existentialism
F. Ecce in Pace
Deal W. Hudson
Can Happiness Be Saved?
Appendices
Raymond Dennehy
The Contemporaneity of
Maritain's Existence and the Existent
Jean-Louis Allard
"Le témoignage
intellectuellement manifesté"