The Common Mind: Politics, Society and Christian Humanism from Thomas More to Russell Kirk (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781621380139)

The Common Mind traces the theme of the sensus communis, inherited from the medievals, through the lives and writings of twelve literary figures in the modern age, ranging from Thomas More and Jonathan Swift to C. S. Lewis and Russell Kirk. It is this quality, argues the author, which, like natural law, serves as the bedrock of orthodoxy, of social and political order, and which, by its presence or absence, determines the nature of every society. The Common Mind is an altogether uncommon achievement: a rich, multivalent reading of our present cultural condition through a brilliant procession of literary portraits; and a critical work in the ongoing effort to recover a unity of life, of understanding, of principles--in short, a common mind.

Author: Andre Gushurst-Moore
ISBN-10: 1621380130
ISBN-13: 9781621380139
Publisher: Angelico Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2013
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d