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Books in the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame

Dissertations on the Maritains

Ahn, Chee Soon. A Comparative Study of the Political Ideas of Two Contemporary Theologians: Reinhold Neibuhr and Jacques Maritain. Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University, 1966.

Amato, Joseph Anthony. Emmanuel Mounier and Jacques Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World. Rochester, N.Y.: Univ. of Rochester, 1970.

Andrew, Scott Allan. War and Human Nature in Bertrand Russell, Jacques Maritain, and Reinhold Niebuhr. Fort Worth, Texas: Southwestern Baptist Theological, 1992.

Ashley, Winston. The Theory of Natural Slavery According to Aristotle and St. Thomas. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1941.

Bistis, Marguerite. Bergsonism in the Belle Epoque. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown University, 1989.

Brackley, J. Dean. Salvation and the Social Good in the Thought of Jacques Maritain and Gustavo Gutierrez. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980.

Brady, Brian Joseph. The Congregation for Catholic Education, The Catholic School and the Thought of Jacques Maritain. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1979.

Buckley, Joseph Anthony. The Dimensions of the Real (The Metaphysical Structure of the Existent in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain). Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1966.

Burgos, Juan Manuel. La Inteligencia Práctica en Jacques Maritain. Rome: Athenaeum Romanum Sactae Crucis, 1994.

Cahalan, John C. Maritain's Views on the Philosophy of Nature. North Andover, MA: Merrimack College, nd.

Carle, Robert. Theological Critiques of Human Rights Theory: The Contributions of Jacques Maritain and Gustavo Gutierrez. Atlanta, Georgia: Emory University, 1989.

Carr, Elizabeth E. Harmonious Folly: A Study in the Spirituality of Max Jacob. Berkeley, Calif: Graduate Theological Union, 1987.

Cohen, Paul M. Piety and Politics: Catholic Revival and the Generation of 1905-1914 in France. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1984.

Concha, Ismael Bustos. Democracia y Humanismo. Universidad de Chile, 1948.

Connelly, Kathleen M. Catholic Witness: The Political Activities of Five European Christian Democratic Scholars While in Exile in the United States, 1938-1945. Boston: Boston College, 1996.

Cooper, John Wesley. Democratic Pluralism and Human Rights: The Political Theologies of Jacques Maritain and Reinhold Niebuhr. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University, 1982.

Croteau- Chonka, Clarisse Claudette. Intuition: A Paradigm of the Wholeness Necessary for Holiness and Its Relationship to Christian Education. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Theological Serminary, 1986.

Doering, Bernard Ellis. Jacques Maritain and French Literary Figures in the Political and Social Turmoil of 1920-1950. Boulder, Colo.: Univ. of Colorado, 1967.

Duffy, John, C.SS.R. A Philosophy of Poetry Based on Thomistic Principles. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1945.

D'Ulisse, Nicolas. La Critique de Robert Charbonneau. Montreal: McGill University, 1990.

Dunn, Will- Matthis. The Relevance of the Thomism of Jacques Maritain to the Present Philosophico- Religious Crisis. Madison, N.J.: Drew Theological Seminary, 1950.

Durbin, Michael R. The Idolatry of Anthropocentric Humanism and a Theocentric Alternative. Toledo, Ohio: Univ. of Toledo, 1983.

Ebrecht, Ann B. Flannery O'Connor's Moral Vision and "The Things of This World". New Orleans: Tulane University, 1982.

Endslow, Bart, S.S.J. The Educational Theories of Jacques Maritain. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1951.

Escasa, Manuel Ramon O. Person and Individual in Jacques Maritain's Social Philosophy. Manila: Ateneo de Manila Univ., 1986.

Evans, Joseph W. The Social and Political humanism of Jacques Maritain. London, Ontario: Univ. of Western Ontario, 1947.

Evans, Joseph W. Developments of Thomisitic Principles in Jacques Maritain's Notion of Society. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1951.

Farley, Gary Eugene. Authority in Contemporary Christian Ethics; A Study in How One May Know the "Will of God" as Discussed in the Writings of Carl F. H. Henry, Jacques Maritain, Emil Brunner, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Nels F. S. Ferré. Fort Worth, Texas: Southwestern Baptist Theological, 1966.

Fischer, Fred A. Intuitive Leadership, Spirituality and Business Intuition. Spalding University, 1999.

FitzGerald, Desmond James. The Political Thought of Jacques Maritain. Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1950.

Flynn, James Robert. Modern Thomism and Democracy. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1958.

Freeman, David Hugh. A Comparative Study of the Relationship between Philosophy and Theology as Exemplified by Representatives of Neo- Augustinianism, Neo- Thomism and Neo- Existentialism. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1958.

Gawronski, Raymond T., S.J. The Role of Sensible Beings in Knowledge of the Real for Jacques Maritain. Spokane, Wash.: Gonzaga University, 1983.

Graney, Maurice Richard, Jr. Natural Law as a Ground for the Common Good in Jacques Maritain. St. Louis: St. Louis University, 1976.

Greenburg, Robert M. the Epistemological Consequences of Jacques Maritain's Metaphysical Personalism. New York: St. John's University, 1984.

Grieco, Eileen. Love and the Act of Contemplation in Modern Thomism. New York: Fordham University, 1993.

Hachey, Sister Mary Mercedes, R.S.M. An Investigation and Evaluation of Two Interpretations of St. Thomas' Doctrine on the Objectivity of the Concept (Jacques Maritain and M. D. Roland- Gosselin). Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1957.

Hanke, John Warren. The Ontological Status of the Work of Fine Art in the Aesthetics of Maritain. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, 1967.

Hanna, Martha Theresa. Intellectuals and the Action Francaise: The Appeal of an Adversative Idiom for Jacques Maritain, Andre Gide, and Georges Bernanos. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 1988.

Hanson, Bruce Kenneth. Mystical Realism: Epistemology and Nondual Awareness. Claremont, Calif.: Claremont Graduate School, 1991.

Hay, Gerald Conrad, Jr. Maritain's Theory of Poetic Knowledge: A Critical Study. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America, 1964.

Hazo, Samuel John. An Analysis of the Aesthetic of Jacques Maritain. Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh, 1957.

Holleman, Warren Lee. A Theological Analysis of the Role of Western Values and American Foreign Policy in the Movement for Universal Human Rights. Houston, Texas: Rice University, 1986.

Hopkins, John Orville. The Social Ethics of Jacques Maritain and Justification of Afro- American Education. New York: Columbia University, 1976.

Hug, James E., SJ. Moral Judgment: The Theory and the Practice in the Thought of Jacques Maritain. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1980.

Huvos, Kornel. Le "Mirage Americain" dans l'Oeuvre de Georges Duhamel, Jules Romains, André Maurois, Jacques Maritain et Simone de Beauvoir. Cincinnati, Ohio, .

Irving, Dianne Nutwell. Philosophical and Scientific Analysis of the nature of the early human Embryo. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ., 1991.

Jamieson, Graham Moffatt. Natural Law and Christian Ethics: The Contemporary Catholic Theory of the Moral Order. New York: Columbia University, 1951.

Jechort, Loren. A Study of Jacques Maritain's Concept of the "Habitus" and Its Relationship to Musical Performance. Grand Forks, N.D.: University of North Dakota, 1978.

Jones, Charlott Ann. Maritain's Creative Intuition and Child Art. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University, 1978.

Joseph, Ellis A. Jacques Maritain's Concept of the Dual Role of the School. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1962.

Jung, Hwa Yol. God, Man and Politics: The Political Philsophy and Theology of Jacques Maritain. Tallahassee, Florida: Univ. of Florida, 1962.

Keegan, Frank Lauren. The Development of Jacques Maritain's Conception of Christian Philosophy. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1959.

Keohane, Edmond F. Maritain on the Role of the School in the Formation of Character. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America, 1965.

Kerr, Gregory J. Maritain's Receptive Intuition and the Benefits of Art. New York: Fordham University, 1992.

Kirkpatrick, Dow. The Epistemology of Thomism: An Exposition and Evaluation. Madison, N.J.: Drew Theological Seminary, 1945.

LaCentra, Walter J. Freedom and Society in Jacques Maritain. New York: St. John's University, 1964.

Lane, Mary Veronica. Maritain's Prime Goal of Education: A Philosophical Interpretation. New Orleans: Tulane University, 1975.

Lechner, Robert, C.P.P.S. The Aesthetic Experience. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1953.

Lesniak, Valerie A., C.S.J. "Suffering the Divine": An Interpretation of the Journal of Raissa Maritain. Berkeley, Calif.: Graduate Theological Union, 1991.

Longwood, Walter Merle. The Ends of Government in the Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr and Jacques Maritain. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, 1969.

Luiz, Thomas. A Comparative Study of Humanism and Pragmatism as They Relate to Decision Making in Instructional Development Processes. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University, 1982.

MacDonald, Angus George. The Philosophy of Religion of Jacques Maritain and Henri Bergson. New York: Columbia University, 1980.

McLean, Stuart Drummond. Elements of Dynamics and Form in the Thought of Karl Barth and Jacques Maritain. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1968.

McMahon, Sister Mary Roberta, O.P. Separatio in Recent Thomism. St. Louis: Saint Louis University, 1963.

Maloney, Anne Mercedes. Gabriel Marcel's Critique of the Thomist Proofs for God's Existence. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Marquette University, 1988.

Martini, Clare Joseph. Maritain and Music. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University, 1958.

Mason, Aimee H. Merleau- Ponty and the Modern Artist. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida, 1980.

Miller, Barry, S.M. Knowledge through Affective Connaturality. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Angelicum, 1959.

Moran, Denis Paul. Gabriel Marcel: Philosopher, Dramatist, Educator. New York: Columbia University, 1989.

Murphy, John Francis. Social Purposes of the School in the Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve Univ., 1970.

Nelson, Ralph Carl. Jacques Maritain's Conception of "Moral Philosophy Adequately Considered". Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame, 1961.

Nothomb, Mother Mary Elizabeth. The Educational Theory of Jacques Maritain. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California, 1953.

O'Donnell, Charles P. The Ideal of a New Christendom: the Cultural and Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain.

Olivier, Ann. Maritain's Creative Intuition and Its Relation to His Earlier and Later Epistemological Thought. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America, 1971.

Outon Mato, Jose Antonio. El Objeto de la Filosofia de la Historia en J. Maritain. Mexico: Universidad Ibero Americana, 1971.

Paterson, John Barstow. Living the Christian Faith in Artistic Creations. Lancaster, Penn.: Lancaster Theological Seminary, 1981.

Power, Joseph F., O.S.F.S. Toward an Ethical Basis for Societal Pluralism in the Christian Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Winooski, Vermont: St. Michael's College, 1980.

Quinlan, P. Kieran. Myth and Message: Paradigms of Belief in John Crowe Ransom and Walker Percy. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University, 1984.

Reichert, Donald Henry. The Philosophy of Freedom and Education in the Thought of Jacques Maritain. Dayton, Ohio: Univ. of Dayton, 1966.

Reveley, Walter Taylor. A Christian Critique of Modern Liberal Democratic Theory as Reflected in the Writings of Jacques Maritain A. D. Lindsay and Reinhold Niebuhr. Durham, N. Carolina: Duke Univ., 1952.

Rice, John Valentine. A Critical Exposition of the Educational Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1965.

Rielly, John Edward. Contemporary Catholic Thought on Church and State: An Analysis of the Work of Jacques Maritain and John Courtney Murray. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1960.

Roberts, Nancy Lee. Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker. Minneapolis- St. Paul: Univ. of Minnesota, 1982.

Rodrigues, Anna Maria Moog. The Concept of Democracy in the Political Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Lawrence, Kansas: Univ. of Kansas, 1961.

Rodríguez Vado, Renán. Teoria del Saber de Jacques Maritain. Mexico?: Universidad Nacional Antonoma de Mexico, 1963.

Rossner, William L., S.J. The Theory of Love in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Princton, N.J.: Princeton University, 1953.

Rosswurm, Richard H. Political Knowledge: Jacques Maritain's Integralism. College Park, Maryland: Univ. of Maryland, 1973.

Rothwell, Mel- Thomas. Three Foundations of Ethics in Maritain, Stace, and Ramsey. Boston: Boston University, 1955.

Ruhlen, Ralph Lester. The Relationship of the Economic Order to the Moral Ideal in the Thought of Maritain, Brunner, Dewey, and Temple. Boston: Boston University, 1959.

Salesses, William Edward, Jr. A Statement of the Ethical Theories of Pragmatism and Thomism as Expressed by John Dewey and J. Maritain, and a Critical Analysis of Pragmatic theories as They Apply to the Modern School from the Thomistic Point of View. Claremont, Calif.: Claremont Graduate School and, 1968.

Santos, Francisco de Araujo. Maritain's Totality. Sevenoaks, Calif.: first draft of manuscript, 1985.

Sasseen, Robert F. The Person, Freedom and the Common Good: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of J. Maritain's Political Philosophy. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1959.

Schell, Edith Weaver. Some Educational Implications of J. Maritain's Theory of the Nature of Man and of the Knowledge Process. Baltimore, Maryland: Loyola College, 1958.

Schlafer, Linda D. The Habit of Becoming: Some French Influences on the Aesthetic of Flannery O'Connor. Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University, 1983.

Schneiders, Sister M. John Gregory, I.H.M. The Metaphysics of Freedom in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Detroit: Univ. of Detroit, 1967.

Schultz, Walter James. Jacques Maritain's Social Critique and His Personalism. Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University, 1982.

Sellars, Jimmy Franklin. A General Baptist Philosophy of Christian Education. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, 1989.

Shao, Pius S. The Relevancy of Maritain's Personalist Political Philosophy. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1979.

Sherwin, Michael S. , O.P. Charity as Friendship in the promotion of the common good in the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Berkeley, CA, M.A. Thesis, 1991.

Skelton, James William. An Analysis of the Philosophy of J. Maritain in Respect of Its Implication for Democratic Education. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1947.

Smith, Brooke William. Jacques Maritain's Philosophy of History: The Man, His Critics, and His Works in Perspective. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Univ. of Santa Barbara, 1973.

Smith, Helen Rosalind. Man's "Conquest of Liberty" and the Problem of Evil: a Study of the Meaning of Salvation in the Writings of Jacques Maritain. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 1979.

Song, Robert. Some Twentieth- Century Christian Interpretations of Liberal Political Thought. Oxford: University of Oxford, 1989.

Staron, Stanislaw Jan. Man and the State in the Philosophy of J. Maritain. Minneapolis- St. Paul: Univ. of Minnesota, 1965.

Steinkamp, Hermann. Der Personalismus in der Sozialphilosophie J. Maritain. Bonn: Rheinishchen- Friedrich- Wilhelms- Universitat, 1967.

Storey, Marie Joseph, S.C. Raissa Maritain: A Catholic Poet. Washington, D.C.: Catholic Univ. of America, 1965.

Sturm, Douglas Earl. The Finalistic Approach to Associational Theory: An Inquiry into the Social Theories of Jacques Maritain, John MacMurray, and Nicolas Berdyaev. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 1959.

Sullivan, Sean M., T.O.R. Maritain's Theory of Poetic Intuition. Fribourg, Switzerland: Univ. of Fribourg, 1964.

Thompson, Raymond Duane. Maritain and Tillich: Art and Religion. Boston: Boston University, 1962.

Trapani, John G. The Interrelation of Poetry, Beauty, and Contemplation in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. New York: St. John's University, 1980.

Truax, John. Jacques Maritain on Art and Education: The Attitude of the Unicorn. Buffalo, N.Y.: State University of New York, 1992.

Ulloa Herrero, Jose Ramon. La Filosofia Politica de Jacques Maritain. Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1973.

Ulshafer, Thomas R. The Concept of History in the Social Ethics of Jacques Maritain. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Theological Seminary, 1978.

Walton, Margaret. A Study of J. Maritain's Publications on Education. New Haven, Conn.: New Haen State Teachers College, 1959.

Willumsen, Kristopher Louis. The Relationship of the Mystical and Political Dimensions of the Christian Faith in the Writings of Jacques Maritain. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 1992.

Yusa, Michiko. Persona Originalis: Jinkaku and Personne, According to the Philosophies of Nishida Kitaro and Jacques Maritain, 2 vols. Santa Barbara, Calif.: University of California, 1983.

Zarco- Neri, Samuel Miguel Angel. El Humanismo de Maritain. Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1966.

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