Life of Reason in an Age of Terrorism / edited by Charles Padrón, Krzysztof Piotr Skowroski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Padrón, Charles, editor.

Skowroski, Krzysztof Piotr, editor.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; Volume 314

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism.

Santayana, George, 1863-1952.

Santayana, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XX, 268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill-Rodopi, 2018.

Summary:

With The Life of Reason in an Age of Terrorism, Charles Padrn and Kris Skowroski (editors) gather together a broad assortment of contributions that address the germaneness of George Santayana's (1863-1952) social and political thought to the world of the early twenty-first century in general, and specifically to the phenomenon of terrorism.The essays treat a broad range of philosophical and historical concerns: the life of reason, the philosophy of the everyday, fanaticism, liberalism, barbarism, egoism, and relativism. The essays reflect a wide range of viewpoints and perspectives, but all coalesce around discussions of how Santayana's thought fits in with and enhances an understanding of both our challenging times, and our uncertain future.Contributors are: Cayetano Estbanez, Matthew Caleb Flamm, Nra Horvth, Jacquelyn Ann Kegley, Till Kinzel, Katarzyna Kremplewska, John Lachs, Jos Beltrn Llavador, Eduardo Mendieta, Daniel Moreno Moreno, Luka Nikolic, Charles Padrn, Giuseppe Patella, Daniel Pinkas, Herman Saatkamp, Jr., Matteo Santarelli, Krzysztof Piotr Skowroski and Andrs Tutor.

Contents:

Intro; The Life of Reason in an Age of Terrorism; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Introduction; Preface: Justice and Sorrow; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Part 1: Terrorism and Its Discontents; 1 Forgetting and Remembering History: Memory and Self-Identity; 2 The Life of Reason and Terrorism: Strategies; 3 Managing Necessity: Santayana on Forms of Power and the Human Condition; 4 Santayanan Reason, Terror and Terrorism, and the Everyday World; 5 Assassination Nation: The Drone as Thanatological Dispositif; 6 Santayana and the (Postmodern) Spirit of Terrorism. Part 2: The Circumscribing Political Context7 Santayana, Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Politics; 8 Santayana on Americanism; 9 Liberalism and the Vertigo of Spirit: Santayana's Political Theodicy; 10 Dewey, Santayana, and 'Ndrangheta: Understanding a Complex Phenomenon; 11 "A Happy Snow-Flake Dancing in the Flaw": Reflections on Santayanan Alternatives and Surviving a New Dark Age; Part 3: Barbarism, Fanaticism, Madness, and Egotism; 12 Barbarism Begins at Home: Santayana and Barbarism in Art and Life; 13 Egotism, Violence and the Devil: On Santayana's Use of the Concept of Egotism. 14 A Religion without Fanaticism: Little Lessons of Wisdom from Santayana15 Santayana on Pluralism, Relativism and Rationality; 16 Santayana's Idea of Madness and Normal Madness in a Troubled Age; 17 Santayana's Philosophy of Education against Fanaticism and Barbarity; Index

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