Lonergan in the World: Self-Appropriation, Otherness, and Justice

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In his philosophical classic Insight, Catholic philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan introduced the concept of self-appropriation - the personal search for knowledge of the self, and through that of the world - as the basis for systematic philosophical investigation. In Lonergan in the World, James L. Marsh argues, clearly and passionately, that self-appropriation can serve as the basis for philosophical, ethical, and even political and economic thought. Comparing and applying Lonergan's principles to major trends in contemporary philosophy, including phenomenology, hermeneutics, postmodernism, analytic philosophy, and Marxism, Marsh uncovers the philosophical and the socio-political implications of Lonergan's work and its value as the basis for a search for justice and self-understanding. Drawing on Marsh's more than forty years of studying and teaching Lonergan's thought, Lonergan in the World is a book that should be read not just by philosophers and theologians, but by anyone interested in the philosophical foundations of a just and authentic life. Cover Contents Preface 1 Self-Appropriation: Lonergan’s Pearl of Great Price 2 Thought and Expression in Lonergan 3 Continental Hermeneutics: A Lonerganian Response 4 Self-Appropriation and Alterity 5 The Unity of the Right and the Good in Lonergan’s Ethics 6 Rationality and Mystery in Lonergan 7 Postmodernism: A Lonerganian Retrieval and Critique 8 Self-Appropriation, Polymorphism, and Différance 9 Lonergan and Marx on Economics and Social Theory: Some Preliminary Reflections 10 Intellectual, Moral, and Religious Conversion as Radical Political Conversion 11 Self-Appropriation, Contemplation, and Resistance 12 On Really Living 13 Self-Appropriation as a Way of Life Notes Index