Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship

by Eric Gregory

Book Overview

Augustine--for all of his influence on Western culture and politics--was hardly a liberal. Drawing from theology, feminist theory, and political philosophy, Eric Gregory offers here a liberal ethics of citizenship, one less susceptible to anti-liberal critics because it is informed by the Augustinian tradition. The result is a book that expands Augustinian imaginations for liberalism and liberal imaginations for Augustinianism.
Gregory examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226307522
• ISBN13: 9780226307527
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.8"