Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics

History

Michael, Novak

Americas

Macmillan Company

Business As a Calling Work and the Examined Life - 1996 publication.

Business & Money

Business Culture

Free Press

The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained reflection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it. With this awareness of the story dimension of life, Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove opens us to awe, reverence, and wonder at the risks and possibilities of human freedom. This book is even more important than it was thirty years ago. We need religion to strike deeply into the self, away from public glare. Unless Americans become more sophisticated about the language of the self, inner life will shrivel. In addition, our people will continue to be vulnerable to fundamentalist movements. Such movements take over too many innocents. They promise, and sometimes deliver, a touching happiness. But they do so by closing the spirit in a powerful and dangerous way. Families and schools do not provide a large and critical vocabulary by which to express the inner longings of the spirit. The souls of many are parched and they gladly accept water, any water, from those who offer it. Th e liberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed, and simplistic systems of thought can only be achieved through the development of a critical language, exercises, and disciplines that open rather than close the mind, that lead to higher viewpoints, breakthroughs, and new syntheses, in a constant enlargement of spirit. Novak's book leads us to that place. Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the UN Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is the director of AEI's social and political studies. He is the author of twenty-five books and numerous scholarly articles. 240 pages.

Ascent of the mountain, flight of the dove;: An invitation to religious studies

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Harper&Row

In The Experience of Nothingness, Michael Novak has two objectives. First, he shows the paths by which the experience of nothingness is becoming common among all those who live in free societies. Second, he details the various experiences that lead to the nothingness point of view. Most discussions of these matters have been so implicated in the European experience that the term "nihilism" has a European ring. Novak, however, articulates this experience of formlessness in an American context.
In his new introduction, the author lists four requirements that must be met by an individual in order for the experience of nothingness to emerge: a commitment to honesty, a commitment to courage, recognition of how widespread the experience of nothingness is, and a virtue of will. Novak writes that these principles are what guide self-described philosophical nihilists. But many people simply borrow the nihilistic conclusions without observing the moral commitments to them. For this reason Novak believes that nihilism is fraudulent as a theory intended to explain the experience of nothingness. Nihilism in practice, he maintains, often results in a form of intolerance. The Experience of Nothingness is a work that will cause many scholars to rethink their beliefs. It should be read by philosophers, theologians, sociologists, political theorists, and cultural historians.

The Experience of Nothingness

Harpercollins (Short Disc)

Liberation Theology

Harold O. J. Brown

Richard John Neuhaus

James V. Schall

Edward R. Norman

Dale Vree

Baker Pub Group

Book by Charles Murray, Robert Royal, Glenn C. Loury, Michael Novak, Peter L. Berger

Gaining Ground: New Approaches to Poverty and Dependency (Ethics and Public Policy Essay - 60)

Robert Royal

Charles Murray

PETER L. BERGER

Glenn C. Loury

Ethics & Public Policy Center

Philanthropy

About the Author Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the US ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is a member of the National Endowment for Democracy board. He is the author of over two dozen books and numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, and National Review Online. He is the winner of the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

Brian O'Connell

Robert Payton

Peter Dobkin Hall

Economics

Routledge

Coltivare la libertà. Riflessioni sull'ecologia morale

Rubbettino

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