Lost in the Chaos: Immanence, Despair, Hope - Softcover

Snell, R. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1621389553 ISBN 13: 9781621389552

Verlag: Angelico Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A world lacking transcendence is a world lacking hope—a world locked in the despair of utter immanence. Humans cannot long endure despair, and so they contrive false substitutes for hope. But these always disappoint. This book first explores the despair that follows from radical immanence, then the manifold false and flailing attempts to provide hope, and then, finally, hope in its fullness. It is a troubling tale of malaise and feverish attempts to conjure alternatives, especially through political rationalism, humanitarianism, and faux enchantment. But, after looking despair full in the face, Lost in the Chaos also offers us a dynamic ontology, a cognitional theory, and the virtue of hope itself. Yes, ours is in many ways a hopeless age, but in the end this hopelessness is a call to renewed hope, which has never truly been lost.

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R. J. SNELL is director of academic programs at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ, and Editor-in-Chief of The Public Discourse. He is the author of many essays in scholarly and popular journals. Recent books include Mind, Heart, and Soul: Intellectuals and the Path to Rome (with Robert P. George), and Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Angelico Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1621389553
• ISBN 13: 9781621389552
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
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