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This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas’stheory of the body presents a Catholic understanding of the body and its implications for social and political philosophy. Making a fundamental contribution to antitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas’s theory of the body is better (because less violent) than other commonly available theories. He contrasts this theory with those of four other groups of thinkers: the continental tradition represented by Kant, Schopenhauer, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Levinas, and Deleuze; feminism, in the work of Donna Haraway; an alternative Catholic theory to be found in Karl Rahner; and the “Radical Orthodoxy” of John Milbank.
Price: $91.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
Series: Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology
Publication Date:
01 May 2005
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.25 in
ISBN: 9780823224562
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Religious
Making a fundamental contribution to antitotalitarian theory, G. J. McAleer argues that a sexual politics reliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better (because less violent) than other commonly available theories.
This is a splendid book. It adds to the wave of books by fine medievalists who are also trained in the best traditions of analytic philosophy.---—Fergus Kerr, OP, New Blackfriars
We can only hope that those thomists who wish to take up the cause are as well attuned to the need for showing the ongoing relevance of Aquinas for modern thought as is McAleer
The book is fun and infuriating.
McAleer's excellent book stands out for the richness of its metaphysical, ethical, and political account of the body-soul ecstasis to which Christians are called, and likewise for the richness of its range of interlocutors."
This is a splendid book. It adds to the wave of books by fine medievalists who are also trained in the best traditions of analytic philosophy.---—Fergus Kerr, OP, New Blackfriars
We can only hope that those thomists who wish to take up the cause are as well attuned to the need for showing the ongoing relevance of Aquinas for modern thought as is McAleer
The book is fun and infuriating.
McAleer's excellent book stands out for the richness of its metaphysical, ethical, and political account of the body-soul ecstasis to which Christians are called, and likewise for the richness of its range of interlocutors."
G.J. McAleer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola College in Maryland and the editor, with Guy Guldentrops, of Henry Bate, Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium, books 8-10.