Duncan B. Reyburn: The Roots of the World

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During his career, the metaphysically minded journalist G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) made a number of remarkable predictions about the future, many of which have come true. He had no science of history or theory of progress, and he vehemently denied that what he was foretelling was inevitable in any way. Yet he was still able to imagine with impressive clarity so much of what has come to pass. This raises an obvious question: How was Chesterton able to be so prescient? In this book, Duncan Reyburn offers an answer by arguing that Chesterton's gift for prophecy resulted from his unique awareness of formal causation, which differs from the typical modern focus on efficient causes and effects. To understand Chesterton's attunement to the formal cause, his work is refracted through the lenses provided by four thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, Marshall McLuhan, and William Desmond. These fit together to create a philosophical-theological telescope that we can look through to better see the astonishing world in which we live; as well as, perhaps, some of what might happen next.

Über den Autor

Duncan Reyburn is associate professor in the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is also the author of Seeing Things as They Are: G. K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning (2016).

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9798385226092
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Reyburn, Duncan B.
Hersteller:	Cascade Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Duncan B. Reyburn
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.02.2025
Gewicht:	0,393 kg