The Science of Modern Virtue (English, Peter Lawler | Marc Guerra)

Product description Review The reader is treated to a series of reflections not only on one of the great questions of philosophy, but also on one of the great themes giving shape to and driving modern culture. -James W. Ceaser, University of VirginiaThis is an excellent volume that is at once eclectic and unifying, comforting and troubling. In good Socratic tradition, it is a deeply subversive work. -Susan J. McWilliams, Pomona College About the Author Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College. He is executive editor of the journal, Perspectives on Political Science and the author of numerous books, most recently Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future and Homeless and at Home in America: Evidence for the Dignity of the Human Soul in Our Time and Place. He is the author of the blog Rightly Understood on BigThink.com, and he contributes to the blog Postmodern Conservative on FirstThings.com. Marc D. Guerra, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author, most recently, of Christians as Political Animals: Taking the Measure of Modernity and Modern Democracy, and Pope Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity.Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College. He is executive editor of the journal, Perspectives on Political Science and the author of numerous books, most recently Modern and American Dignity and What That Means for Our Future. He is the author of the blog Rightly Understood on BigThink.com, and he contributes to the blog Postmodern Conservative on FirstThings.com.Marc D. Guerra, PhD, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author, most recently, of Christians as Political Animals and Pope Benedict XVI and the Politics of Modernity.