The life of reason in an age of terrorism /

The life of reason in an age of terrorism /

With The Life of Reason in an Age of Terrorism , Charles Padrón and Kris Skowroński (editors) gather together a broad assortment of contributions that address the germaneness of George Santayana's (1863-1952) social and political thought to the world of the early twenty-first century in general...

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Other Authors: Padrón, Charles.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2018.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 314.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.

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Santayana, George, > 1863-1952.
Terrorism.

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Call Number: B945.S24 L54 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Justice and Sorrow
  • Acknowledgments
  • Terrorism and Its Discontents
  • Forgetting and Remembering History: Memory and Self-Identity /
  • Jaquelyn Ann Kegley
  • The Life of Reason and Terrorism: Strategies /
  • Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr.
  • Managing Necessity: Santayana on Forms of Power and the Human Condition /
  • Katarzyna Kremplewska
  • Santayanan Reason, Terror and Terrorism, and the Everyday World /
  • Charles Padrón
  • Assassination Nation: The Drone as Thanatological Dispositif /
  • Eduardo Mendieta
  • Santayana and the (Postmodern) Spirit of Terrorism /
  • Luka Nikolić
  • The Circumscribing Political Context
  • Santayana, Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Politics /
  • Till Kinzel
  • Santayana on Americanism /
  • Daniel Moreno
  • Liberalism and the Vertigo of Spirit: Santayana's Political Theodicy /
  • Matthew Caleb Flamm
  • Dewey, Santayana, and 'Ndrangheta: Understanding a Complex Phenomenon /
  • Matteo Santarelli
  • "A Happy Snow-Flake Dancing in the Flaw": Reflections on Santayanan Alternatives and Surviving a New Dark Age /
  • Nóra Horváth
  • Barbarism, Fanaticism, Madness, and Egotism
  • Barbarism Begins at Home: Santayana and Barbarism in Art and Life /
  • Giuseppe Patella
  • Egotism, Violence and the Devil: On Santayana's Use of the Concept of Egotism /
  • Daniel Pinkas
  • A Religion without Fanaticism: Little Lessons of Wisdom from Santayana /
  • José Beltrán Llavador
  • Santayana on Pluralism, Relativism and Rationality /
  • Andrés Tutor
  • Santayana's Idea of Madness and Normal Madness in a Troubled Age /
  • Cayetano Estébanez
  • Santayana's Philosophy of Education against Fanaticism and Barbarity /
  • Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński.