Book cover for Looking at the Sun: New Writings in Modern Personalism by Anna Castriota and Simon Smith

Looking at the Sun

New Writings in Modern Personalism

2019 Released
240 Pages
4-6 Hours
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Vernon PressISBN 9781622734863

Every kind of exploration is touched in some way by a philosophy of persons; touched and often vitally enhanced. This collection sets out to mine this rich seam of influence, bringing together authors keen to strike new developments and applications. Together, they have put their philosophy of persons to work in fields as wide-ranging as the moral and the metaphysical, the practical and the political, the cultural and the cosmological. In doing so, they have drawn on and illustrated the depth and breadth of modern Personalist thought, demonstrating its crucial relevance to debates across the entire philosophical spectrum.

Whether they are familiar with the Personalist tradition or no, readers from every corner of the philosophical world will find much here to challenge and stimulate them. Most importantly, they will find a new and badly needed philosophical perspective.

Anna Castriota

Italian but resident in Oxford, UK since 1994 when she first came after she had been awarded with a post-doctoral scholarship by her Italian University: Universita' Degli Studi di Bari. Her academic titles are: Laura in Filosofia with a doctoral thesis "The Logic of Question and Answer in R.G. Collingwood and H.G. Gadamer" awarded with 110 summa cum laude. Visiting fellow position at Pembroke College, University of Oxford (1994-5); advisor for Italy for the European Centre for Democracy, University of Riga; lecturer in Politics, International Relations and Terrorism at St Clare's College, Oxford. Areas of research: Philosophy of Fascism and esoteric Nazism, Theosophy and Metaphysics of Nazism, neo-Idealism and R.G. Collingwood, continental Christian Personalism.

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