G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward by Clark, Stephen R. L.

G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781599471044)

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G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward by Clark, Stephen R. L.

G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward

$34.95
G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward by Clark, Stephen R. L.

G. K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward

$34.95
Format: Hardcover
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In this book, Stephen R. L. Clark, a philosopher with a lifelong "addiction" to science fiction, explores G. K. Chesterton's ideas and arguments in their historical context and evaluates them philosophically. He addresses Chesterton's sense that the way things are is not how they must have been or need be in the future and his willingness to face up to the apparent effects of the nihilism he detected in the science and politics of his day.

Clark offers a detailed study of some of Chesterton's works that have been identified by science fiction writers and critics as seminal influences. He attempts to deal with some of Chesterton's theories that have been found offensive or "positively wicked" by later writers and critics, including his arguments against female suffrage and in praise of war, his medievalist leanings, and his contemptuous rejection of the Darwinian evolutionary theory.



Author: Stephen R. L. Clark
ISBN-10: 1599471043
ISBN-13: 9781599471044
Publisher: Templeton Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.30w x 0.97d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 259
By Stephen R. L. Clark
By Stephen R. L. Clark
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Stephen R. L. Clark is a professor of philosophy and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, England. He received his D Phil from Oxford in 1973. Dr. Clark served as chief editor at the Journal of Applied Philosophy for eleven years and is now a member of its editorial board, as well as serving on the boards of Religious Studies and the Cambridge University Press series New Studies in Christian Ethics. Well-known for his interest in both religion and science fiction, he has lectured widely in the U.S. and the U.K. He has authored more than sixty scholarly articles, contributed chapters to seventy-five books, edited one book, and written fourteen others, including The Mysteries of Religion, Civil Peace and Sacred Order, How to Live Forever, Animals and their Moral Standing, and Biology and Christian Ethics. His current main work is on the philosopher Plotinus's ethics and psychology.

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